Making of a Left-Behind Class

Educational Stratification, Meritocracy and Widening Participation

AvFred Powell,Margaret Scanlon

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Despite the high aspirations of young people from disadvantaged communities, they face barriers that are frustrating the realisation of their educational ambitions.This book analyses the ‘left-behind’ phenomenon and shows how education has become the new divide in Western society. It explains how denied educational equality and frustrated opportunity are undermining social cohesion and what we can do about it. It challenges meritocratic thinking and the efficacy of widening participation as a policy for social inclusion.Combining analysis of educational disadvantage at an international level and among Travelling communities with empirical data derived from fieldwork with parents, teachers and students in the European Union (Ireland), this book offers fresh thinking and new hope in relation to young people left behind in the opportunity structure.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-03-04
Mått:156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt:474 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:214
Förlag:Bristol University Press
ISBN:9781447367949

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Fred Powell served as Professor of Social Policy and founding Head of the School of Applied Social Studies at University College Cork for 25 years, Dean of Social Science and latterly Student Ombudsman.Margaret Scanlon is Research Coordinator for the Institute of Social Science in the 21st Century at University College Cork. Hilary Jenkinson is Lecturer in the School of Applied Social Studies at University College Cork. Patrick Leahy is Lecturer in the School of Applied Social Studies and Director of Postgraduate Youth Studies at University College Cork. Olive Byrne is Head of Access at University College Cork.

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“This is a beautifully written, powerfully engaging book that everyone concerned with the state of education should read. It reveals how educational systems create left-behind classes with dire consequences for democracy across the globe.” Diane Reay, University of Cambridge

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction: Aristotle’s Curse2. The Cultural Politics of Educational Stratification3. Public Education, Universities and Widening Participation4. The Psycho-Politics of Meritocracy: IQ+ Effort=Merit?5. Snakes and Ladders: Aspirations and Barriers6. Social Class and Parental Attitudes Towards Education and Career Choices7. Structural Racism and Traveller Education8. Conclusion: Global Lessons