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This book explores the aspirations of 'working class' girls' in an ex-mining community in the UK. It highlights the difficulties present in these 'post-industrial' settings, which are often areas of severe deprivation, and questions whether these place limitations on the achievements of the girls within the community. Based on an eight-year longitudinal study of girls in three primary schools and two secondary schools which differed in levels of attainment, the book examines the girls' initial aspirations, decision-making, and later achievements when in post-compulsory education. It will be compelling reading for students, academics and practitioners in Education, offering a unique appreciation of how working-class girls balance their own aspirations with the educational opportunities perceived to be available to them.

Explores the hopes and fears of girls within ex-coalmining communities using their own voicesHighlights how the groups of girls balanced their own aspirations with the educational opportunities perceived to be available to themSuggests how schools should plan provisions to support aspirations and raise achievementIncludes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras