Education, Work and Social Change in Britain’s Former Coalfield Communities: The Ghost of Coal

Foreword
Reference
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Abbreviations
List of Figures
List of Tables
Introduction: Education, Work and Social Change in Britain’s Former Coalfield Communities
	The Coalfields in Context
	Structure and Organisation of the Book
	References
Contextualising the Coalfields: Mapping the Socio-Economic and Cultural Loss of the Coal Industry
	Introduction
	The Tale of Two Billys
	The Half-Life of Coal and the Half-Life of Deindustrialisation
	Discussion
	References
Growing-Up in the Interregnum: Accounts from the South Yorkshire Coalfield
	Introduction
	State Management of Economic Change
	An Economic Interregnum
	A New Form of Social Rule?
	References
A Conflictual Legacy: Being a Coalminer’s Daughter
	Introduction
	Hard Lives: Four Generations of a Coalmining Family
	Challenging Over-Simplified Narratives: Unravelling the Lived Complexities of Mining Communities
	Conclusion
	References
How Education and Training Developed the Mining Workforce: Oral Recollection and Testimonies
	Introduction
	Education and Training for the Coal Industry: Early Beginnings
	Nationalisation of the Coal Industry: Expansion and Growth of Provision
	Miners’ Recollections of Their Education and Training
		The Mining Surveyor
		Area Mining Manager
		Mining Apprentice to Author
		From Miners to Librarians
		From Miner to Ornithologist
	Conclusion
	References
‘Dirty, Dirty Job. Not Good for Your Health’: Working-Class Men and Their Experiences and Relationships with Employment
	Introduction
	Literature Review
		Post-World War Two Studies
		Experience of Work
		The Shift from Manual to Service Sector Work
		Contemporary Studies
	Contextual Information and Methodology
	Findings
		‘Most Men I Know Are in Construction and That Stuff’
		‘I’m Just an Active Guy and Want to Keep Moving’
		‘Dirty, Dirty Job Like. Not Good for Your Health’
	Discussion and Conclusion
	References
Education, Social Haunting, and Deindustrialisation: Attuning to Ghosts in the Hidden Curriculum
	Introduction
	Lillydown and Lillydown Primary School
	Spectrality, Marxism, and Education
	The Social Relations of Schooling: Tracing Ghosts
	The Way of the Ghost
		The Paradox of Social Haunting
	Conclusion: The ‘Something-To-Be-Done’
	References
Teaching Industrial History After Deindustrialisation: ‘Tracks of the Past’ in the Scottish Coalfields
	Introduction
	A Coalfield Heritage
	TOTP 1: Background and Lesson Observations
	TOTP 2: Outcomes
	Conclusion
	References
‘I Was Never Very Clever, but I Always Survived!’: Educational Experiences of Women in Britain’s Coalfield Communities, 1944–1990
	Introduction
	Class
	Gender
	Imagined Futures
	Experiences of School and the Making of the Self
	Conclusion
	References
Are We Expecting Too Much? Aspirations and Expectations of Girls Living in an Ex-Mining Community
	Introduction
	Disadvantage and Underachievement
		Girls and Vulnerability to Underachievement
	Expecting Too Much?
		Community Context
		School Context
	Interviews
	Aspirations and Expectations: Primary Schoolgirls
	Aspirations and Expectations: Secondary Schoolgirls
	Achieving Aspirations?
		The Primary Schoolgirls Who Progressed to SS1
		The Primary Schoolgirls Who Progressed to SS2
		The Primary Schoolgirls Who Progressed to SS3 and SS4
		The Secondary Schoolgirls: SS1
		The Secondary Schoolgirls: SS2
	What Can Schools Do?
		Confidence and Trust
		Achievement and Resilience
		Understanding Successful Learning Behaviour
	Conclusion
	References
Practices and Negotiations of Belonging in the Deindustrialising Coalfields: Navigating School, Education and Memory Through a Time of Transformation
	Introduction
	Remembering Collaboratively
	Belonging and the Coalfields
	Belonging, Place and Class
	School and Education: Senses and Practices of Belonging
	Legacies and Reflection
	References
Conclusion: The Ghost of Coal
	Neoliberalism, Dispossession and the Ghost of Coal
	Life After Coal
	Revisiting the Ghost of Coal
	References
Epilogue
	References
Index