Wednesday 16:00-16:30 Laurie Taylor discusses the latest social science research.
05 September 2007 repeat 09 September
THE ATTAINMENT GAP
Laurie Taylor presents a special series of three programmes to examine the social gaps which most concern researchers in today’s divided Britain: the residential gap, the generation gap and the class gap.
Laurie is joined by two policy makers throughout the series, the Conservative MP David Willetts and the Labour MP Frank Field; in this third part they discuss the attainment gap together with two academic experts Leon Feinstein and John Goldthorpe.
They consider a rather more traditional and enduring difference between the educational attainments of working class and middle class children and how it perpetuates the disadvantages of poorer families.
This week’s guests:
Conservative MP David Willetts Member of Parliament for Havant; Shadow Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills
Labour MP Frank Field One-time Minister of Welfare Reform in Tony Blair’s government and author of several books and pamphlets on social policy
Leon Feinstein Reader in the Economics of Education and Director of the Centre for Research on the Wider Benefits of Learning at the institute of Education, University of London
Social Class and Cognitive Development in Childhood in the UK Paper published in Education, Globalization and Social Change Author(s): Hugh Lauder; Phillip Brown; Jo-Anne Dillabough; Halsey Halsey ISBN10: 0199272530 ISBN13: 9780199272532 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
John Goldthorpe Emeritus fellow of Nuffield College Oxford University and an expert in social stratification
