Inequalities in education and society: the home, the school and the power of reading
Professor Alice Sullivan talks about social class and gender differences in educational attainment and social mobility.
Inequalities in education and society: the home, the school and the power of reading
18 Jun 2019, 18:15 – 19:30
Chair: Professor Becky Francis, Director, IOE
Respondent: Professor Heather Joshi, IOE
In this public lecture Professor Alice Sullivan talks about social class and gender differences in educational attainment and social mobility.
She addresses the roles of children's home backgrounds and their schooling, and explains the importance of 'cultural capital' and the power of reading for pleasure.
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Department of Social Science, UCL Institute of Education
Alice Sullivan is Professor of Sociology at the IOE, and Director of the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS).
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