Powell / Scanlon / Leahy The Making of a Left-Behind Class

Educational Stratification, Meritocracy and Widening Participation
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-4473-6796-3
Verlag: Policy Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 214 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Powell, Fred

Scanlon, Margaret

Leahy, Pat

Jenkinson, Hilary

Byrne, Olive

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Mobilität
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Dienste, Soziale Organisationen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Aristotle’s Curse

2. The Cultural Politics of Educational Stratification

3. Public Education, Universities and Widening Participation

4. The Psycho-Politics of Meritocracy: IQ+ Effort=Merit?

5. Snakes and Ladders: Aspirations and Barriers

6. Social Class and Parental Attitudes Towards Education and Career Choices

7. Structural Racism and Traveller Education

8. Conclusion: Global Lessons

Über Autor(innen)

Scanlon, Margaret
Margaret Scanlon is Research Coordinator for the Institute of Social Science in the 21st Century at University College Cork.

Byrne, Olive
Olive Byrne is Head of Access at University College Cork.

Leahy, Pat
Patrick Leahy is Lecturer in the School of Applied Social Studies and Director of Postgraduate Youth Studies at University College Cork.

Jenkinson, Hilary
Hilary Jenkinson is a lecturer in the School of Applied Social Studies at University College Cork.

Powell, Fred
Fred Powell served as Professor of Social Policy and founding Head of the School of Applied Social Studies at UCC for 25 years, Dean of Social Science and latterly Student Ombudsman. He received the Richard Titmuss Book Award in 2018.

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.