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Smith, Michael D. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
As global neoliberalism continues to take root, States aim to produce linguistically-skilled human capital to gain an advantage within highly-competitive market conditions. With this relationship in view, English language proficiency constitutes a 'rational' educational pathway for national and personal-level success within an outwardly…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Global Approach
Buser De, Maya – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2023
In this article we describe evolving educational aspirations and practices of female high school students and their families in the context of rapidly changing education and employment markets in Kolkata. We interviewed 35 families of girls attending two government high schools. The families are from lower middle-class and lower income…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Females, Family Relationship
Ayling, Pere – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2021
Studies have shown the ways in which non-Western middle- and upper-class families are seeking to educate their children in the West. The rationale for this kind of social reproduction strategy is the acquisition of 'valuable' cultural and symbolic capitals which can be advantageous in the graduate job market of both their home country and…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Advantaged, Academic Aspiration, Study Abroad
Chao, Xia; Ma, Xiufang – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2019
Grounded in the perspectives of language socialization and transnational habitus, this one-year ethnographic case study explores two middle-class Chinese sojourner families' educational, bilingual and biliterate practices after their arrival in the U.S. It addresses the process that their middle childhood children experienced, from the excitement…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Literacy, Social Isolation, Socialization
Liu, Dian – Journal of Education and Work, 2016
In the expanded higher education in China, middle-class students are found to have better access to job information than their underprivileged counterparts; they also gain better jobs in the labour market. Researchers have turned to social capital theory to explain this phenomenon, claiming that middle-class students with wider social network and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Participation, College Graduates, Middle Class
Russell, Melody; Russell, Jared A. – Electronic Journal of Science Education, 2014
Preservice science teachers hold a number of existing beliefs and expectations for their students from culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) backgrounds. Many teacher education programs (TEPs) provide diversity coursework, multicultural education courses, and field experiences to better prepare preservice teachers for the CLD classroom. A…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Cultural Awareness, Student Characteristics
Riazantseva, Anastasia – Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2012
The purpose of this case-study was to understand the relationship between success in college and L2 academic writing of three Generation 1.5 Russian-speaking middle-class college students and to describe the factors that could have contributed to the levels of academic literacy that these students developed. The following research questions were…
Descriptors: College Students, Middle Class, Socialization, Reputation