How the enduring rhetoric of “raising aspirations” affects the higher education choice support offered to vocational students in an English further education college
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7759512 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Diane Atkinson (University of Staffordshire, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 77 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1216-1235 |
| Publication date | 2025-06-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Educational Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-1911 • E-ISSN: 1465-3397 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00131911.2025.2449914 |
| OpenAlex | W4406897360 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 38 |
Higher education · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Political science · Raising (metalworking) · Rhetoric · Sociology · Vocational education · Education Systems and Policy · Engineering · Higher Education and Employability · Law · Psychology · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
Education Policy
Changing Practices, Changing Education
Enabling Praxis
Are there distinctive clusters of higher and lower status universities in the UK?
Thematic analysis.
Are we still “raising aspirations”? The complex relationship between aspiration and widening participation practices in English higher education institutions
Choice, Pathways and Transitions Post-16
Cultural Theory and Popular Culture
Seize That Chance!’ Leaving Home and Transitions to Higher Education
Always knowing’ and ‘never being sure’
The transition from vocational education and training to higher education
The influence of teacher habitus on the university applications of moderately-attaining students
Working‐class boys, educational success and the misrecognition of working‐class culture
From sociological fictions to social fictions
Working with/in institutions
Gatekeepers or facilitators
A new approach to researching school effects on higher education participation
Aspirations
Challenging discourses of aspiration
The path increasingly travelled
Progressing to university
Do less‐advantaged students avoid prestigious universities? An applicant‐centred approach to understanding Ucas decision‐making
Sticky Subjects’ or ‘Cosmopolitan Creatives’? Social Class, Place and Urban Young People’s Aspirations for Work in the Knowledge Economy
Naturalistic inquiry
Against Meritocracy
Applying to higher education
Negotiating and contesting 'success
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |