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Glincy Piyus – Global Studies of Childhood, 2025
The paper examines the role of literature set in late 20th-century Kerala, India, at the intersections of class and gender, in establishing and propagating new ideals for children and childhood. During this period, Kerala gained recognition from the UN for its Kerala Model of Development, which positioned the state at the forefront of Human…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literature, Social Class, Sex
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Idit Fast – American Journal of Education, 2025
Purpose: This study examined challenges to gentrifying schools as white spaces, exploring the efforts of administrators and parents to create an equitable school environment during the initial years of the Diversity in Admissions policy. Methods: In qualitative fieldwork conducted over 2 years at City, a Title I public school in New York City, I…
Descriptors: Social Class, Land Acquisition, Change, Middle Class
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Iskra Iveljic – Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 2024
The author analyses the education of aristocracy in Croatia and Slavonia from the late 18th century until 1918. Education played a vital role in the mindset and lifestyle of aristocracy, and in retaining its elite position in the political, social, cultural, economic and military aspect, to name just some. Aristocrats were trained to become the…
Descriptors: Social Class, Educational Practices, Private Education, Tutors
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Wanru Xu; Bram Spruyt – Educational Review, 2024
In recent years, Innovative Schools in Dali have received increasing coverage in Chinese social media and have also attracted middle-class parents from cities, as viable bottom-up educational initiatives. This paper explores the rationales for Chinese middle-class parents' choice of Innovative Schools in Dali. Analysis of data from online…
Descriptors: College Students, Middle Class, Nontraditional Education, Parents
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Yan Li – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2025
This paper explores how middle-class mothers' involvement in and how the meanings of a public school choice are shaped by the class differences in cultural capital and economic capital between the mother and father within one family. It examines the practices of choosing a public school that shapes a middle-class mother, rather than the school…
Descriptors: Social Class, Social Differences, Middle Class, Mother Attitudes
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Ryan M. Good – Education and Urban Society, 2025
In the late-2000s, Washington, DC achieved national notoriety for its embrace of market accountability in public schools and support for a steadily expanding charter sector. At the same time, the DC government pursued a concerted effort to attract new residents and investment to the city, a project that bore fruit in the form of some of the…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Accountability, Disadvantaged, Social Class
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Rachel Louise Stenhouse; Nicola Ingram – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2024
In this article we make an argument for the importance of embodied cultural capital in the generation of class advantage through private school students' access to Oxbridge. Private schools in England continue to reproduce advantage (Variyan 2019), however, establishing exactly how students are advantaged through private schooling is not…
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, Advantaged, Social Class, Private Schools
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Anuradha Thittai Kumar; Òscar Prieto-Flores – International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education, 2025
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the experiences of college-age mentors in a school-based mentoring (SBM) program with the aim of understanding mentor perceptions of "power." Design/methodology/approach: Seventeen mentors, comprising both undergraduate (9) and graduate (8) students, participated in this exploratory…
Descriptors: Mentors, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes
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M. Antony-Newman; S. Niyozov; K. Pashchenko – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2024
Despite the rhetoric of 'we are all in this together' during the COVID-19 pandemic, not all families experienced schooling disruption in 2020-2022 equally. Middle-class parents typically enjoy significant advantage over parents in working-class occupations. To illuminate class-based differences in parental engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic,…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Parent Participation, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Grace Cornell Gonzales – Language and Education, 2024
This study explores the experiences of middle-class transnational Latina mothers whose children are enrolled in gentrified dual-language ­programs. Drawing upon the theory of differential consciousness, I explored how these mothers' own complex identities informed their navigation of conflicting discourses that position dual-language education on…
Descriptors: Mothers, Hispanic Americans, Bilingual Education, Middle Class
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Nirali Jani – Journal of Education Policy, 2024
This article traces the state takeover and neoliberal reconstruction of a mid-size urban school district in the California Bay Area. Aligning with research on social networks in school reform, it identifies three organizational nodes of power operating within the takeover and post-takeover landscape: venture-philanthropic capital, the Teach for…
Descriptors: School Districts, Neoliberalism, States Powers, Educational Change
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Xiaoyan Guo; Lifeng Miao – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Informed by Bourdieu's conceptualisation of habitus and its relation with social class, this study explores the construction and negotiation of middle-class identity among a group of urban overseas returnees in China. Using ethnographic interviews and online observational data, the study found that participants built a compliant identity…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Cultural Capital, Life Style, Social Class