Power, Sally

Education and the middle class / Sally Power, Tony Edwards, Geoff Whitty and Valerie Wigfall - 175 pages ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Destined for success? Political arithmetic and personal narratives -- 2. Schooling the middle class -- 3. Choosing the 'right' school -- 4. Success realized? Achievements at school -- 5. Fitting in and getting on -- 6. Schoolgirls, schoolboys and school work -- 7. Middle-class students and university: 'fish in water'? -- 8. Failing against the odds? -- 9. Entering middle-class employment -- 10. The present and the future -- 11. Including the middle class

Power, S., Edwards, T., Whitty, G., & Wigfall, V. (2003). Education and the middle class. Open University Press.

0335205550


Middle class--Great Britain--Education--Longitudinal studies
Educational surveys--Great Britain

370.862 / Ed8 2003