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Education and social mobility : dreams of success /

By: Hoskins, Kate [author.].
Contributor(s): Barker, Bernard [author.].
Publisher: London : Institute of Education Press, 2014Description: xv, 172 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.Content type: text | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9781858566139; 9781858566139:; 1858566134.Subject(s): Education | Social mobility -- England | Student aspirations -- EnglandDDC classification: 305.513
Contents:
Introduction -- Policy-makers, Education and Social Mobility -- Schools and Achievement -- Families and Children -- Aspirations -- Choosing the Future.
Summary: This title examines government plans to improve upward mobility in England and considers the chances of success in the light of qualitative interviews with 88 school students. It suggests that governments consistently underestimate the resistances to mobility that are embedded in social and occupational structures.
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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 305.513 HOS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0064340
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-168) and indexes.

Introduction -- Policy-makers, Education and Social Mobility -- Schools and Achievement -- Families and Children -- Aspirations -- Choosing the Future.

This title examines government plans to improve upward mobility in England and considers the chances of success in the light of qualitative interviews with 88 school students. It suggests that governments consistently underestimate the resistances to mobility that are embedded in social and occupational structures.

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