Reframing Education Failure and Aspiration: The Rise of the Meritocracy

Shaun Best

doi:10.46692/9781447374992

Reframing Education Failure and Aspiration

The Rise of the Meritocracy

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Shaun Best, University of Winchester

Publisher:: Bristol University Press
Online publication date:: April 2025
Print publication year:: 2024
Online ISBN:: 9781447374992
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.46692/9781447374992

Subjects:: Organisational Sociology, Sociology
Series:: 21st Century Standpoints

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Education is seen as central to social mobility and equality and, following a drive to raise learners' aspirations, an 'aspiration industry' has emerged. This book traces education policy developments and argues that for learners to have aspirations that do not require qualifications should be regarded as different, not wrong.

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Reframing Education Failure and Aspiration

The Rise of the Meritocracy

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Contents
pp iii-iv

Introduction: the aspiration industry and the meritocratic sort
pp 1-30

1 - Social mobility and equality of opportunity
pp 31-54

2 - Social justice, social change, and social engineering: a history of aspiration formation in UK education
pp 55-78

3 - Border youth and the ‘turn to character’ in neoliberalism
pp 79-104

4 - The case studies: schools in challenging circumstances
pp 105-141

5 - The case studies: schools in affluent areas
pp 142-160

6 - The effective school and the neoliberal project
pp 161-184

7 - School leadership
pp 185-205

Conclusion
pp 206-212

Bibliography
pp 213-237

Index
pp 238-240

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