130 research outputs found

    The influence of parents, places and poverty on educational attitudes and aspirations

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    This report aims to better understand the relationship between young people 19s aspirations and how they are formed. There is a high degree of interest among politicians and policymakers in aspirations, driven by two concerns: raising the education and skills of the UK population, and tackling social and economic inequality. High aspirations are often seen as one way to address these concerns, but how aspirations contribute to strong work and educational outcomes is not well understood. Based on longitudinal research in three locations in the UK, the report investigates aspirations and contributes empirical evidence to the debate

    Shaping educational attitudes and aspirations: the influence of parents, place and poverty: stage 1 report

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    An interim report of a study which aims to better understand the relationship between childrenā€™s aspirations in relation to education and employment, and the context in which they are formed. In particular, the study seeks to explore how parental circumstances and attitudes, the school as an institution, and the opportunity structures of the neighbourhood come together to shape aspirations in deprived urban areas. This report examines: ā€¢ The assumptions of current policy that aspirations are a key ingredient of educational and labour market outcomes; ā€¢ What aspirations are and how they can be understood; ā€¢ What young peopleā€™s aspirations are for further and higher education and for future occupations in three secondary schools; ā€¢ The main influences on those aspirations, including the roles of parents, schools and the neighbourhood context ā€¢ Messages for the second stage of the research and emerging lessons for policy. The report provides some evidence to question the assumption among policy makers that there is a ā€˜poverty of aspirationsā€™ among young people from disadvantaged backgrounds or living in disadvantaged neighbourhoods

    Damned if they do, damned if they don't: negotiating the tricky context of anti-social behaviour and keeping safe in disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods

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    Young people's relationship with anti-social behaviour (ASB) is complicated. While their behaviours are often stereotyped as anti-social (e.g. ā€˜hanging aboutā€™), they also experience ASB in their neighbourhood. In this study, we explore young people's own perspectives on ASB, comparing results from ā€˜go-alongā€™ interviews and focus groups conducted in disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Glasgow, Scotland. This article discusses how young people's everyday experience of ASB was contextualised by social factors such as cultural stereotyping of marginalised groups, poor social connectivity and spatial marginalisation within their neighbourhood. Furthermore, we found that these social factors were mutually reinforcing and interacted in a way that appeared to leave young people in a ā€˜no-winā€™ situation regarding their association with ASB. Participation in ASB and attempts to avoid such involvement were seen to involve negative consequences: participation could entail violence and spatial restrictions linked to territoriality, but avoidance could lead to being ostracised from their peer group. Regardless of involvement, young people felt that adults stereotyped them as anti-social. Our findings therefore provide support for policies and interventions aimed at reducing ASB (perpetrated by residents of all ages); in part by better ensuring that young people have a clear incentive for avoiding such behaviours

    Subjectivity, affect and place: Thinking with Deleuze and Guattariā€™s body without organs to explore a young teen girlā€™s becomings in a post-industrial locale.

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    This article explores how subjectivities are affectively tied to the histories of space, place and time through ethnographic research on young peopleā€™s everyday lives in a semi-rural post-industrial locale. Drawing on a longitudinal case study of one teenage girlā€™s inventive practices, we capture moments in time that we arrange as ā€˜enunciating assemblagesā€™ (Guattari, 2006) to explore how conscious and unconscious affective relations repeat and rupture sedimented gendered histories of place. We experiment with Deleuze and Guattariā€™s concept of the full and empty Body without Organs to trace the ā€˜ontological intensitiesā€™ of how, when and where newness and change become possible. We argue that making visible young peopleā€™s nascent becomings by focusing on what young people already do and imagine, we can potentially support young people pursuing new horizons without losing the very sense of place that makes them feel both safe and alive

    Castlemilk East Co-Operative: The Residents View 1989-1994

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    Socio-spatial segregation in UK cities: causes, consequences and ways forward

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    The Demand for Social Housing in the City of Glasgow: Local Studies: Govan/Ibrox

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    Ferguslie Park

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