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Unequal Childhoods: A Case Study Application of Lareau's 'Accomplishment of Natural Growth' in British Working-Class and Poor Families
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Wilson, Suzanne; Worsley, Aidan – British Educational Research Journal, 2021
International authors have argued that social class inequalities can influence parental engagement in education. Lareau argued that middle-class families possess the resources to actively cultivate their children to succeed academically, whereas working-class and poor families feel they lack such resources and allow their children to develop…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Class, Social Differences, Working Class
Against the Odds: Poor Kids, Poorer Schools, and Unexpected Success
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Muriel, Pablo – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This study is a qualitative analysis of guided reflections on the educational experiences of five former students who attended schools in the poorest congressional district in the United States. While the students did not all know each other or attend the same secondary schools, they all had the same high school social studies teacher, the…
Descriptors: Educational Experience, Disadvantaged Schools, High School Graduates, Literacy
The Mission of Mercy: Catholic High Schools, School Presidents, and Pope Francis
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Moloney, Brendan Joseph – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this descriptive study was to examine the commitment of Catholic secondary schools to the poor, working, and middle class families of the New York City metropolitan area through the perception of the school president. This study sought to identify the socioeconomic class of students in the Catholic high school populations within…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, High Schools, Presidents, Administrator Attitudes
Labour Universities: Physical Education and the Indoctrination of the Working Class
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Delgado-Granados, Patricia; Ramírez-Macías, Gonzalo – History of Education, 2014
This paper explores the role of physical education in Labour Universities (1955-1978) during Franco's regime as an instrument of indoctrination and declassing of the working class. The conclusions obtained after the study and the analysis of various primary sources indicate that, initially, physical education was used as an instrument of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Working Class, Physical Education
First Year Experiences of Low-Income Students at a Public Flagship University
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Ramsey, James Louis – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In order to improve the academic and cultural transition of low income, disadvantaged, first-generation, and working-class students at a public flagship institution, the purpose of this qualitative study is to listen as these students, with increasingly diverse background experiences, narrate their first-year experiences, including the summer…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Low Income Groups, Public Colleges, Selective Admission
Using Standards and High-Stakes Testing for Students: Exploiting Power with Critical Pedagogy. Counterpoints: Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education. Volume 425
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Gorlewski, Julie A., Ed.; Porfilio, Brad J., Ed.; Gorlewski, David A., Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2012
This book overturns the typical conception of standards, empowering educators by providing concrete examples of how top-down models of assessment can be embraced and used in ways that are consistent with critical pedagogies. Although standards, as broad frameworks for setting learning targets, are not necessarily problematic, when they are…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, High Stakes Tests, Resistance (Psychology), Standardized Tests