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Mercader, Patricia; Weber, Rebecca; Durif-Varembont, Jean-Pierre – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2015
Drawing on a larger study on "Gender practices and violence between peers: the stakes of mixed-sex education", this paper examines the methodological challenges specific to carrying out ethnography in an elite high school. The researcher's subjective experience in the field reveals the power dynamics at play in the elite setting. We also…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Advantaged, Research Methodology, Violence
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Doyle, Ann – Compare: A Journal of Comparative Education, 2008
This article evaluates PISA 2000 as a resource for providing information on educational attainment and inequality, focusing on France and England. Going beyond pupils' performance, it assesses levels of educational inequality by examining distributions of scores and the relationship between socio-economic status and performance. This review raises…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational Attainment, Foreign Countries, Comparative Education