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The End of Aspiration?
Why is it getting harder to secure a job that matches our qualifications, buy a home of our own and achieve financial stability? Underprivileged people have always faced barriers, but people from middle-income families are increasingly more likely to slide down the social scale than climb up. Duncan Exley, former Director of the Equality Trust, 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.
END OF ASPIRATION?
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.
Reframing Education Failure and Aspiration
Education is considered central to social mobility and, following a drive to raise learners’ aspirations, an ‘aspiration industry’ has emerged. However, the desire to leave school early should not be regarded as evidence of students lacking ambition. This book traces the emergence of the aspiration industry and argues that to have ambitions that do not require qualifications is different, but not wrong. Reviewing the performance of six schools in England, their Ofsted reports and responses, it evaluates underpinning assumptions of what makes an effective school. This book critically examines neo-liberal education policy developments, including the 1988 Education Reform Act, and the political discourse around changing explanations of education ‘failure’ with the rise in the marketisation of education.
Thus to Fling Her Soul
This work is about performance, vulnerability, brokenness, age, and "the Call." It is autobiographical, the journey of an experienced dancer-choreographer with recognition nationally and internationally. As, additionally, an academic with several degrees, Jennifer De Leon's work is supported by theoretical research. Her approach is hermeneutical phenomenological and includes some of her PhD material. Laying aside the academic strictures of university research, however, provides the author entry to a spiritual dimension giving her scope to explore the Call. The spiritual, artistic, theoretical, and whimsical support the story about how and why, despite age, injury, and pain, "flinging the soul" is a worthy alternative to giving up. This book is thus universally relevant for all who are aging or know pain, loss, or despair, and yet are drawn by the Call to not give up. The goal of this book is to inspire hope--offering a vision as to how life with age, injury, pain, or vulnerability, can be lived not just satisfactorily, but abundantly.
Universities Under Fire
This book explores the ways in which the contemporary university is talked about, and talks about itself. Focusing on English higher education, Jones documents how an under-confident sector internalised the language and logic of government policy, and individual institutions then set about normalising competition and gaming short-term advantage at the expense of collectively serving a common good. A flawed marketisation project was attended and sustained by hostile discourses, with purportedly woke universities becoming a soft target for right-leaning politicians and media commentators, and campuses reluctant battlefields for manufactured culture wars. Within this context, integrity deficits...
The Media and Inequality
This book brings together a vast range of pre-eminent experts, academics, and practitioners to interrogate the role of media in representing economic inequality. It explores and deconstructs the concept of economic inequality by examining the different dimensions of inequality and how it has evolved historically; how it has been represented and portrayed in the media; and how, in turn, those representations have informed the public’s knowledge of and attitudes towards poverty, class and welfare, and political discourse. Taking a multi-disciplinary, comparative, and historical approach, and using a variety of new and original data sets to inform the research, studies herein examine the rela...
The Language of Inequality in the News
Explores how UK wealth inequality is discussed in newspapers, with a particular focus on changes over the past forty-five years.
Minutes of the Methodist Conferences from the First, Held in London in the Year 1744
Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
