دانلود کتاب آموزش، کار و تغییرات اجتماعی در جوامع سابق میدانهای زغال سنگ بریتانیا

There is something fundamental about the whole notion of the ‘working classes’ that policy and other elites simply don’t get, and this book beau-tifully nails it by puncturing the problem—through some remarkably insightful analyses of former coalmining communities.
The fact that these elites are either not bright enough to ‘get it’, or so self-absorbed within the hermetically sealed bubble of their own lives, as to continue to blunder on in complete ignorance, has profound implications for the way social policies are formed and their deleterious effects on the lives they are inflicted upon. This elision is not simply an accidental oversight, nor is it an innocent omission, but is, I would argue, a deliberate attempt to keep these communities in a state of servile domestication.
By failing to understand, or even attempting to understand, the vernacular meanings of former coalmining communities, and hoping that they will remain invisible and therefore not troublesome, is fanciful in the extreme. Diane Reay (2006) argues that until education policy elites begin to understand the potency of social class in education as a central motif, then class will ‘remain the troublesome un-dead of the English education system’ (p. 289). Well, there we have the essence of this book in a nutshell!
The contributors to this book show what social injustice looks like in graphic terms, when the lives, cultures, aspirations and histories of former coalmining communities are besmirched—the very structure and social fabric of society are threatened. As Simmons and Simpson put it in the conclusion to this volume, those who are ‘disregarded or forgotten’ cannot be rendered invisible forever. Their inference is that we cannot make coalmining communities ‘redundant’, and not expect serious social ramifications.
This remarkable collection of essays goes some way towards reversing this wilful neglect, but in a form that amounts to some concrete steps that constitute a genuine move towards reclaiming the lives of working-class children, their families and communities.