Education, work and social change in Britain's former coalfield communities : the ghost of coal / / edited by Robin Simmons, Kat Simpson

• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2022]; 2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (278 pages)
• Disciplina: 929.374
• Soggetto topico: Education; Sociologia de l'educació; Canvi social; Indústria minera
• Soggetto geografico: Anglaterra
• Soggetto genere / forma: Llibres electrònics
• Persona (resp. second.): SimmonsRobin; SimpsonKat
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Foreword -- Reference -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction: Education, Work and Social Change in Britain's Former Coalfield Communities -- The Coalfields in Context -- Structure and Organisation of the Book -- References -- Contextualising the Coalfields: Mapping the Socio-Economic and Cultural Loss of the Coal Industry -- Introduction -- The Tale of Two Billys -- The Half-Life of Coal and the Half-Life of Deindustrialisation -- Discussion -- References -- Growing-Up in the Interregnum: Accounts from the South Yorkshire Coalfield -- Introduction -- State Management of Economic Change -- An Economic Interregnum -- A New Form of Social Rule? -- References -- A Conflictual Legacy: Being a Coalminer's Daughter -- Introduction -- Hard Lives: Four Generations of a Coalmining Family -- Challenging Over-Simplified Narratives: Unravelling the Lived Complexities of Mining Communities -- Conclusion -- References -- How Education and Training Developed the Mining Workforce: Oral Recollection and Testimonies -- Introduction -- Education and Training for the Coal Industry: Early Beginnings -- Nationalisation of the Coal Industry: Expansion and Growth of Provision -- Miners' Recollections of Their Education and Training -- The Mining Surveyor -- Area Mining Manager -- Mining Apprentice to Author -- From Miners to Librarians -- From Miner to Ornithologist -- Conclusion -- References -- 'Dirty, Dirty Job. Not Good for Your Health': Working-Class Men and Their Experiences and Relationships with Employment -- Introduction -- Literature Review -- Post-World War Two Studies -- Experience of Work -- The Shift from Manual to Service Sector Work -- Contemporary Studies -- Contextual Information and Methodology -- Findings -- 'Most Men I Know Are in Construction and That Stuff'. ; 'I'm Just an Active Guy and Want to Keep Moving' -- 'Dirty, Dirty Job Like. Not Good for Your Health' -- Discussion and Conclusion -- References -- Education, Social Haunting, and Deindustrialisation: Attuning to Ghosts in the Hidden Curriculum -- Introduction -- Lillydown and Lillydown Primary School -- Spectrality, Marxism, and Education -- The Social Relations of Schooling: Tracing Ghosts -- The Way of the Ghost -- The Paradox of Social Haunting -- Conclusion: The 'Something-To-Be-Done' -- References -- Teaching Industrial History After Deindustrialisation: 'Tracks of the Past' in the Scottish Coalfields -- Introduction -- A Coalfield Heritage -- TOTP 1: Background and Lesson Observations -- TOTP 2: Outcomes -- Conclusion -- References -- 'I Was Never Very Clever, but I Always Survived!': Educational Experiences of Women in Britain's Coalfield Communities, 1944-1990 -- Introduction -- Class -- Gender -- Imagined Futures -- Experiences of School and the Making of the Self -- Conclusion -- References -- Are We Expecting Too Much? Aspirations and Expectations of Girls Living in an Ex-Mining Community -- Introduction -- Disadvantage and Underachievement -- Girls and Vulnerability to Underachievement -- Expecting Too Much? -- Community Context -- School Context -- Interviews -- Aspirations and Expectations: Primary Schoolgirls -- Aspirations and Expectations: Secondary Schoolgirls -- Achieving Aspirations? -- The Primary Schoolgirls Who Progressed to SS1 -- The Primary Schoolgirls Who Progressed to SS2 -- The Primary Schoolgirls Who Progressed to SS3 and SS4 -- The Secondary Schoolgirls: SS1 -- The Secondary Schoolgirls: SS2 -- What Can Schools Do? -- Confidence and Trust -- Achievement and Resilience -- Understanding Successful Learning Behaviour -- Conclusion -- References. ; Practices and Negotiations of Belonging in the Deindustrialising Coalfields: Navigating School, Education and Memory Through a Time of Transformation -- Introduction -- Remembering Collaboratively -- Belonging and the Coalfields -- Belonging, Place and Class -- School and Education: Senses and Practices of Belonging -- Legacies and Reflection -- References -- Conclusion: The Ghost of Coal -- Neoliberalism, Dispossession and the Ghost of Coal -- Life After Coal -- Revisiting the Ghost of Coal -- References -- Epilogue -- References -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Education, Work and Social Change in Britain's Former Coalfield Communities
• ISBN: 3-031-10792-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910617306003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II