ASPIRATION, IDENTITY AND SELF-BELIEF : Snapshots of social structure at work

by Riddell, Richard

• ISBN13: 9781858564654
• ISBN10: 1858564654
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-05-31
• Publisher: Stylus Pub Llc

Summary

This book presents the evidence gathered from original interviews to show how the aspirations of young people develop in light of their social circumstances. Those who attend independent schools will find that the relationship between what goes on at home and at school makes it socially almost impossible not to have achievable aspirations for a place at a prestigious university.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
How things in the UK stay the way they are	p. 1
What the parents said: parenting, children's ambitions and the resources they draw on	p. 11
The schools' view of things	p. 27
The other contexts of young people's lives: the formation of aspiration as part of identity	p. 41
Those not born to rule: 'aspirant' working class students and higher education	p. 55
Getting in to the right university: what it is to be bright	p. 89
The aspirations of 'other' young people: snapshots of the 'disengaged'	p. 123
Social Justice and the State	p. 147
Bibliography	p. 163
Index	p. 173
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