Jessica Bowyer
Jessica Bowyer
Education
University of Exeter
Graduate School of Education
September 2016
Closing the attainment gap in rural and coastal schools
The attainment gap between disadvantaged students and their peers is persistent. Recent research suggests that the gap is largest in rural and coastal schools. My research explores the attainment gap…
The attainment gap between disadvantaged students and their peers is persistent. Recent research suggests that the gap is largest in rural and coastal schools. My research explores the attainment gap from three perspectives:
- Secondary analysis of the National Pupil Database;
- The use of Pupil Premium funding in secondary schools in the South West and the strategies schools employ to the close the attainment gap;
- The ways in which students in rural and coastal areas construct and mediate their identities as learners and young people, drawing on hybridised theories of identity, rooted in the the work of Bauman and Bourdieu.
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