Fran Abrams

Learning to Fail (eBook, ePUB)

How Society Lets Young People Down

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Blending interviews with those most closely affected together with views from key commentators and experts the author creates a vivid picture of a system and societal failure; a failure both that is at once both embarrassing and avoidable.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135264826
• Artikelnr.: 42509308

Autorenporträt

Fran Abrams is an investigative journalist with 20 years' experience of observing and reporting on education in the United Kingdom. She works regularly for the UK broadsheet newspapers and for the BBC, and lives in Suffolk.

Inhaltsangabe

@contents: Selected Contents: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PREFACE The young people
INTRODUCTION Yasmin The numbers game 1: THE IMPORTANCE OF PLACES How do
places affect life chances? Barnsley The role of local networks Tom
Cultures of exclusion Colllyhurst Ricky The East End Will 2: CHANGING
CHANCES The old days The Dearne Clinging to the past Claire and her family
3: ASPIRATIONS Home and family What do parents expect? Ashley 4: POVERTY
AND WEALTH Real or relative? 5: SCHOOL Teenagers and the rejection of
school Underachievement Ricky's school 6: CHANGING FAMILIES Iain Duncan
Smith Rachel Attachment and uncertainty Robbie 7: STREET LIFE Criminal
careers? Antisocial behaviour? 8: MAKING CHOICES Connexions Wombwell High
School Unrealistic choices Bridging the Gap - a missed opportunity? Elvige
9: FURTHER TROUBLE Information Gaps David Willetts Colleges - what are they
for? Lord Young, Minister for Skills and Apprenticeships Apprentices
Dropping Out Yasmin Lost opportunities 10: THE WORLD OF WORK The employers'
view The call centre Workless Culture? Benefit dependency Will Solutions
Rachel's job 11: RACE MATTERS Ray Lewis Poor White boys Broken Britain?
Will 12: THE DIFFERENCE FOR GIRLS Motherhood and careers Rachel 13:
REACHING OUT Long term problems, short term solutions Outreach in Barnsley
14. CONCLUSIONS Footnote - outcomes BIBLIOGRAPHY