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Direct linkMerrill, Barbara; Finnegan, Fergal; O'Neill, Jerry; Revers, Scott – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
Much research on adults in higher education has focused on issues of access and participation. As a result little is known about what happens to working-class students after leaving university even though employability is high on the agenda HE research on this topic in relation to such students is sparse. This research focuses on the voices of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Potential, Nontraditional Students, Working Class
Cahill, Kevin – Research Papers in Education, 2018
This paper draws on a three-year critical ethnography which interrogated intersections of social class, school and identity in an urban Irish community. The focus here is on the psycho-spatial disidentifications, inscriptions and class fractioning enacted throughout the school and community of Portown by a cohort of succeeding students from this…
Descriptors: Social Class, Self Concept, Working Class, Social Mobility
McCoy, Selina; Smyth, Emer – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2011
This article explores social class and gender differences in entry to the two main higher education sectors, universities and institutes of technology, among school leavers in Ireland over the period 1980-2006. A rational choice perspective is adopted, with participation hypothesised to reflect the costs and benefits attaching to attending the two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Social Differences, Gender Differences
Smyth, Emer – Oxford Review of Education, 2018
Young people in Irish schools are required to choose whether to sit secondary exam subjects at higher or ordinary level. This paper draws on a mixed methods longitudinal study of students in 12 case-study schools to trace the factors influencing take-up of higher level subjects within lower secondary education. School organisation and process are…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Mixed Methods Research, Middle Class, Working Class
Keane, Elaine – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2011
This paper explores the social class-differentiated behaviours of access and traditional-entry students, based on a three-year constructivist grounded theory study with 45 undergraduates at an Irish university. The participant groups behaved significantly differently within the socio-relational realm, engaging in various forms of distancing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Grounded Theory, Constructivism (Learning)
Ruairc, Gerry Mac – Irish Educational Studies, 2009
The recent decision by the Department of Education and Science in the Republic of Ireland to introduce the mandatory testing of children in Irish primary schools provides the broad context for this paper. This decision has particular implications for schools designated as disadvantaged. The main focus of this study is on identifying the strategies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disadvantaged Schools, Standardized Tests, Disadvantaged Youth
