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Iannelli, Cristina – Oxford Review of Education, 2008
This paper examines trends in social class inequalities in young people's educational attainment and HE [Higher Education] entry between the mid-1980s and the end of the 1990s in England and Scotland. Using time-series data derived from the Scottish School Leavers Surveys and the England (and Wales) Youth Cohort Study, changes in both absolute and…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Educational Attainment, Social Differences, Foreign Countries
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Garcia, Herman S.; Donato, Ruben – Community Education Journal, 1991
Language minority parent involvement in schools should not be judged by white, middle-class models. Minority parents must bring new and different knowledge to schools to ensure equitable policies, bilingual education, and support for diversity. (SK)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Middle Class, Minority Groups
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Collins, James – Journal of Education, 1989
Examines the struggle between dominant and minority groups in terms of the use of language. Traces the development of literacy as a means of social control in the United States and England. Argues that linking literacy with standard language creates an effective form of ideological hegemony. (FMW)
Descriptors: English, Language Research, Literacy Education, Middle Class Culture
Fenster, Mark – 1989
Theories of taste are efforts to understand the processes of signification by which cultural forms take on meaning, and how subjects are inserted into such processes. One of these theories is the notion of "taste cultures," set forth by Herbert Gans in the 1960s and continued by George Lewis into the 1980s. A taste culture is an…
Descriptors: Audience Response, Cultural Context, Cultural Traits, Democratic Values
Torbe, Mike – Highway One, 1985
Discusses the importance of teachers' awareness of students' backgrounds and cultures and cites research conducted in Great Britain by B. Tizard and M. Hughes and in the United States by S. Heath to support this belief. (DF)
Descriptors: Child Language, Educational Research, Middle Class, Social Characteristics
Stern, Virginia – 1981
The findings of nine studies comparing the symbolic play of middle-class and lower-class children are summarized and examined in detail. Related research problems are discussed and directions for future research are indicated. Examination of the studies indicated that few general conclusions can be drawn from them about the relative quality of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences, Disadvantaged Youth
Bornstein, Marc H., Ed.; Bradley, Robert H., Ed. – 2003
Noting that there is near universal agreement that children from families with higher socioeconomic status (SES) have access to more of the resources needed to support their positive development than do lower SES children, this monograph examines the myriad questions remaining regarding relations among SES, parenting, and child development from a…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Child Rearing, Children