Education and Social Mobility
Subtitle: Dreams of Success
Publisher: Institute of Education Press (IOE Press)
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9781858566139
Subjects: Social mobility, great britain; Level of aspiration
Description: This title examines government plans to improve upward mobility in England and considers the chances of success in the light of qualitative interviews with 88 school students. It suggests that governments consistently underestimate the resistances to mobility that are embedded in social and occupational structures.