Eksempel på paper om "Education and Social Mobility: An Opening in Oxford"

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A1
The article “An Opening in Oxford" by Eleanor Mills from 2007 is about how social mobility in Britain is very low. Education seems to be the key to change this because higher education will mean better jobs and higher living standards for people from lower social classes. Unfortunately, the leading universities are taking in fewer students from state schools and poor areas, and the gap between rich and poor is increasing. Summer schools may be a way to change this negative development. Bright youngsters from ...

A2
The three texts show various connections between education and social mobility. In text 1 Eleanor Mills shows how education can be a very important factor in giving people the opportunity of changing their social status. Higher educations for youngsters from lower social classes will give them the chance to get better jobs and become part of a higher social class. An initiative like summer schools for poorer kids is one way to show youngsters that it is possible for them to better their living conditions. In text 2 Prime Minister Gordon Brown speaks of the importance of giving everyone a solid education and a chance for an ...

A3
In text 1, “An opening in Oxford”, one of the youngsters at the summer school in Oxford states, “At school you wouldn't let on that you are clever. The others look down on you.” Being from a lower social class and being interested in intellectual matters is not easy, as the quotation illustrates. These kids have to hide their skills because otherwise they will get unpopular among their friends. What is worse, the statement indicates that education is generally seen in a negative light among the lower social classes. This means that ...

A4
Today's moldbreakers face big challenges. They need both the courage to step out of the shadow of a negative social heritage and the strength to believe in their own abilities.

A number of barriers are keeping lower class youngsters from breaking out of a negative social pattern with low education levels and badly paid jobs. First of all, these youngsters have to overcome the common prejudice that higher education is not for poor kids. It takes courage to apply for Oxford or Cambridge when your mother is a cleaning assistant and your father is unemployed. Also, the social pressure of ‘not ... Køb adgang for at læse mere Allerede medlem? Log ind