Mapping the educational experiences of working-class girls through and beyond compulsory education

绘制工人阶级女孩在义务教育期间及之后的教育经历

• 批准号: ES/W006324/1
• 负责人: Hannah Walters
• 金额: $ 13.19万
• 依托单位: King's College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FW006324%2F1
• 关键词: Mapping; educational; experiences; working; class

This fellowship aims to contribute to research-informed policy, practice and public debate around the class- and gender-based experiences of working-class girls during and after their time in compulsory education and to produce information and resources that are of use to practitioners and girls themselves. These aims will be achieved through the writing of academic papers, attending academic conferences, engaging with a diverse range of professional and non-academic audiences, and through creating useful, accessible tools in the form of a co-created guide and resources that will be made available on a bespoke project website. Working-class girls are often overlooked in educational research and policy-making. While young people's school-to-work transitions have been a major focus of youth and educational research for decades, the challenges facing girls and young women remain somewhat marginalised, as do their particular gender and class-based experiences. At the same time, the connections between school-based experiences and the directions and character of girls' post-school trajectories remain under-researched and under-theorised. This is especially true for those girls further marginalised in terms of class. Finally, discussions around the value of vocational education remain entrenched in ongoing debates which serve to construct many modes of vocational education such as beauty education as 'second class'. My recent doctoral study with working-class girls and young women engaged in beauty education uncovered the realities of these transitions out of compulsory education for working-class girls, and made visible the manifold ways in which their trajectories and experiences are not reflected in broader discussions on these issues. As such, working-class girls are underserved in academic and policy circles. I found that: a) negative school experiences were a key driver of post-school trajectories. Often leaving school was the goal, and beauty education was a way to achieve it.; b) although beauty education is heavily criticised from a range of perspectives, beauty students articulate a broad range of positive aspects of beauty education, including those relating to social capital, care and creativity; and c) in order to work with marginalised young people in a meaningful and co-creative way, participatory research methods must be mobilised. In my doctoral work and subsequent research projects I have used participatory creative feminist methods to achieve this. The primary aim of this fellowship is to share insights from my research and exchange knowledge with a range of audiences to: a) enhance understanding and raise critical awareness of the class and gender-based inequalities facing working-class girls; b) generate tools to help practitioners better support working-class girls' educational journeys, and c) engage a diverse range of professional and non-academic audiences to raise the profile of how class- and gender -based inequalities impact the school and post-school experiences of working-class girls. The fellowship will allow me to engage with research audiences through the presentation of conference papers and publications in peer-reviewed academic journals. In addition, public events will be organised to reach a wide range of non-academic audiences interested in the educational experiences of working-class girls.

该奖学金旨在促进围绕工人阶级女孩在义务教育期间和之后的基于阶级和性别的经历的研究知情的政策，实践和公开辩论，并制作对从业人员和女孩本身有用的信息和资源。这些目标将通过撰写学术论文、参加学术会议、与各种专业和非学术受众接触，以及通过以共同创建的指南和资源的形式创建有用的、可访问的工具来实现，这些工具将在定制的项目网站上提供。在教育研究和决策中，工人阶级的女孩往往被忽视。虽然几十年来，青年人从学校到工作的过渡一直是青年和教育研究的一个主要焦点，但女孩和青年妇女面临的挑战仍然在某种程度上被边缘化，她们特殊的性别和阶级经历也是如此。与此同时，学校经验与女童毕业后的发展方向和特点之间的联系仍然没有得到充分研究和理论化。对于那些在班级中被进一步边缘化的女孩来说，情况尤其如此。最后，围绕职业教育价值的讨论仍然根深蒂固，正在进行的辩论有助于构建许多职业教育模式，如美容教育作为“第二课堂”。我最近对工人阶级女孩和从事美容教育的年轻女性进行的博士研究揭示了工人阶级女孩从义务教育过渡的现实，并使人们看到了她们的轨迹和经历在更广泛的讨论中没有反映出来的多种方式。因此，工薪阶层的女孩在学术界和政策界得不到充分的服务。我发现：a）负面的学校经历是毕业后轨迹的关键驱动力。经常离开学校是目标，美容教育是实现这一目标的一种途径。B）虽然美容教育受到了广泛的批评，但美容学生表达了美容教育的广泛积极方面，包括与社会资本，关怀和创造力有关的方面;以及c）为了以有意义和共同创造的方式与边缘化的年轻人合作，必须动员参与性研究方法。在我的博士工作和随后的研究项目中，我使用了参与性的创造性女权主义方法来实现这一目标。这个奖学金的主要目的是分享我的研究见解和交流知识与一系列的观众：a）加强理解和提高阶级和基于性别的不平等面临工人阶级的女孩的批判意识; B）开发工具，帮助从业人员更好地支持工人阶级女孩的教育历程，（c）让各种专业和非学术受众参与进来，提高人们对基于阶级和性别的不平等如何影响工人阶级女孩的学校和毕业经历的认识。该奖学金将使我能够通过在同行评审的学术期刊上发表会议论文和出版物与研究受众接触。此外，还将组织公共活动，以接触对工人阶级女孩的教育经历感兴趣的广泛的非学术受众。