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Direct linkEllery, Karen – Teaching in Higher Education, 2017
Educational literature shows that students from working-class backgrounds are significantly less likely to persist to completion in higher education than middle-class students. This paper draws theoretically and analytically on Bernstein's ([1990. "Class, Codes and Control, Volume IV: The Structuring of Pedagogic Discourse." London:…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Science Education, Social Class, Higher Education
Ramnarain, Umesh; de Beer, Josef – Research in Science Education, 2013
In this paper, we report on the experiences of three 9th-grade South African students (13-14 years) in doing open science investigation projects for a science expo. A particular focus of this study was the manner in which these students merge the world of school science with their social world to create a hybrid space by appropriating knowledge…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Grade 9, Secondary School Science
