Hewers of wood and drawers of water: English subaltern education from the charity schools to the neoliberal meritocracy of widening participation

Critical Social Policy, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 191-211, May 2025.
British educational ideas and policies towards working-class and minority youth show continuous preoccupations with social status and preparation for labour. In examining this, we link educational discourses and practices in England from the Charity …