Making of a Left-Behind Class: Educational Stratification, Meritocracy and Widening Participation, Fred Powell, Hilary Jenkinson, Margaret Scanlon, Olive Byrne, Pat Leahy
Описание: The book is targeted at a global readership in the academic disciplines of social policy, education and civil society actors working with educational disadvantage. While primarily addressed to academic audiences and students in sociology, politics, social policy, education and related disciplines, it has the potential to find a wider readership amongst activists, policy makers and the wider public, given the importance and topicality of the issues covered.
Описание: 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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