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The miseducation of the working classes

This article explores recent research data to show that English working-class children are being let down by the school system

This article is extremely useful for the topics of ‘Education’ and ‘Education with Methods in Context’, providing a detailed and challenging view of how the provision of education differs along class lines. It also demonstrates the use of mixed methods in research — aqualitative method to find out how children ‘see through’ dividing pupils by setting or streaming, being fully aware of their position in the hierarchy, and statistical data on educational outcomes by social class.

functions of education, social mobility, class segregation

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