Output details
25 - Education
University of Reading
Book title
Children's lives, children's futures: A study of children starting secondary school
Type
A - Authored book
DOI
-
Publisher of book
Continuum
ISBN of book
9781847062697
Year of publication
2010
Number of additional authors
2
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
Yes
Double-weighted statement
The output is a major book based on a substantial ESRC funded research study of children beginning secondary school. The study includes a large representative questionnaire survey in 15 schools and in depth personal interviews with about 40 children. Individual chapters cover children’s sense of the future, their educational intentions, their occupational plans, their views of school, their experience as learners and negative responses to school. Each of the six empirical chapters could easily be a journal article and the book overall addresses issues of social reproduction, the sociology of childhood, individualisation and structure and agency.
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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