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Juang, Linda P.; Schachner, Maja K.; Pevec, Sharleen; Moffitt, Ursula – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
We examined whether German adolescents who participated in an adapted 8-week school-based intervention, the "Identity Project," reported greater changes in heritage and global identities and perceptions of classroom cultural climate. We used a longitudinal, wait-list control design pooling eight classrooms across the school years of…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Adolescent Development, Intervention, Educational Environment
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Bradford, Lorena; Diaz, Abigail; Schilling, Ruth – Journal of Museum Education, 2021
Embracing an inclusive mindset within museums is necessary to further accessibility and transform the role of museums in a changing society to more effectively foster diversity. A brief overview of the history of laws related to people with disabilities and the role of centralized museum associations sets accessibility as a concept within cultural…
Descriptors: Exhibits, Museums, Role, Social Change
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Goastellec, Gaele – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2012
Faced with an increasing number of data and rankings, the author questions the roles of the different groups of actors who were originally involved in questioning the use of statistical indicators as a means of addressing issues of access to higher education. The comparison and nature of these international (UNESCO, OECD, EUROSTAT) and national…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Diversity (Institutional)
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Glaesser, Judith; Cooper, Barry – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2012
Selective and comprehensive school systems vary in both the degree and timing of selection. To study the consequences of such variation, cross-national comparisons are usually undertaken. Given that cultural differences between countries affect pathways and outcomes, apportioning causal influence in such studies can be difficult. In 1970s Britain,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Educational Practices, Comparative Education
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Walther, Andreas; Stauber, Barbara; Pohl, Axel – Journal of Youth Studies, 2005
This article deals with informal networks and their role in young people's strategies of coping with the uncertainties of transitions to work. The underlying hypothesis is that informal networks have a high potential in this regard that, however, is strongly differentiated according to class and education. Drawing on West German data from the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Biographies, Education Work Relationship, Young Adults
Werum, Regina E. – 2000
This research examined the relationship between parental social capital and children's educational track placement in Germany, and how parental social capital differentially affected the tracking experiences of German and non-German children. Parental social capital was defined as the degree to which adults used family networks or connections to…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education
Barz, Heiner – 2001
The benefits of and barriers to lifelong learning were examined in two studies of the relationship between social milieu and interest in, access to, and participation in adult education. The first study was conducted in Freiburg, Germany, in 1995-1998, and the second study was conducted in Munich, Germany, in 2000-2002. The Freiburg study focused…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Comparative Analysis