Educational Attainment and Society (Continuum Studies in Education)
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group
Published: March 15, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780826488565
Subjects: Curriculum planning & development; Organization & management of education; Education; Education / Teaching; Educational Policy & Reform; Popular Culture - General; Educational attainment; Great Britain; Longitudinal studies; Sex differences in education; Social aspects; Social conditions; Students
Description: "This monograph focuses on attainment at the end of secondary/high school education and the interface with tertiary education. Nigel Kettley combines a thorough reappraisal of secondary literature, including official statistics, institutional histories and interview data, with an analysis of qualitative and quantitative primary research. The results show the significance and weakness of both the mid-twentieth-century classic analyses of social class and the late-twentieth-century feminist approaches. Ultimately these findings demonstrate how a joint consideration of social issues, in particular of gender and social stratification, produce a powerful model for explaining attainment. This has important implications for educational policy in two key areas, namely boys' underachievement and participation in Higher Education."--BOOK JACKET.