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The end of aspiration? : social mobility and our children's fading prospects /
Duncan Exley draws on expert research and real life experiences - including from an actor, a politician, a billionaire entrepreneur and a surgeon - to issue a wake-up call to break through segregated opportunity. He offers a manifesto to reboot our prospects and benefit all.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol ; Chicago, IL :
Policy Press,
2019.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The end of aspiration? : |b social mobility and our children's fading prospects / |c Duncan Exley. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Bristol ; |a Chicago, IL : |b Policy Press, |c 2019. | |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
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| 505 | 0 | |a Intro; THE END OF ASPIRATION?; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. The world's great meritocracy; What the hell am I doing here?; Old school: backgrounds of the 'establishment'; The past and another country: how we compare; Who's who; 2. Early years; Dutch lessons; The price of a good start; The impossible girl; School readiness and parenting; A positive mindset; Can a positive mindset be taught?; Life lessons; Family structure; The safety net; Childcare; The die is cast?; 3. School years; Top at five, bottom at thirteen; Faces that fit; Pride and prejudice; Mis-shapes, mistakes, misfits | |
| 505 | 8 | |a The power of a good teacherThe cost of a free education; Selection by ability; Spend to segregate ... ; ... or invest to integrate; Battles won on playing fields ... ; Basic provisions or extra rations; Neighbourhood; 4. Choosing a path; Inspiration and aspiration; 'Someone like me'; 'Yes we can'; Improbability drives; What to study?; Work experience; Choosing higher education; Admissions of failure; Widening participation in higher education; Pressure points; Choosing a different path; 5. Higher education, and other higher education; Strangers in paradise; Out of class; The seminar room | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Creating or hosting prosperity?Careers services; The cost; An alternative higher education; 6. Into a job; Unexpectedly unready, again; High-quality candidates; Self-made; Room at the top; 7. Career progression; A crash course in applied anthropology; Management training for children; Consequences of rebelliousness; The entrepreneurial ladder; Getting up off the floor; Investing in people; The Sports Direct effect; 8. For richer or poorer; Feeling at home; Work versus wealth; Anti-aspiration policies; Pairing up or marrying down; Buying chances; 9. Does social mobility matter? | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Business, public services and the economy: out of touch and out-performedPolitics in a bubble: not on the same page, not on the same story; Dissenting without differing; Against social mobility: knowing one's place; Against social mobility: an excuse for inequality; Against social mobility: the individual and the collective; 10. Conclusion: Barriers and opportunities; An opportunity society?; Hostile environment; Segregation; Toll roads on the route to opportunity; Heroes and heroines; The scarcity of the objects of aspiration; Creating an environment hospitable to aspiration; Desegregation | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Wider horizonsDemolishing toll booths; A bigger pie; Hope, and a story of hope; Notes; Index | |
| 520 | |a Duncan Exley draws on expert research and real life experiences - including from an actor, a politician, a billionaire entrepreneur and a surgeon - to issue a wake-up call to break through segregated opportunity. He offers a manifesto to reboot our prospects and benefit all. | ||
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