'Off the model': Resistant spaces, school disaffection and 'aspiration' in a former coal-mining community

Children's Geographies

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 63-78

  Bright, N Geoffrey ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coalfield communities; Disaffection; Ethnography; Intergenerational; Resistant aspiration

Indexed keywords

EID: 79751511844     PISSN: 14733285     EISSN: 14733277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2011.540440     Document Type: Article

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