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Educating for Futures in Marginalized Regions: A Sociological Framework for Rethinking and Researching Aspirations
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Zipin, Lew; Sellar, Sam; Brennan, Marie; Gale, Trevor – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2015
"Raising aspirations" for education among young people in low socioeconomic regions has become a widespread policy prescription for increasing human capital investment and economic competitiveness in so-called "knowledge economies". However, policy tends not to address difficult social, cultural, economic and political…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Aspiration, Cultural Capital, Low Income Groups