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Çelik, Çetin; Özdemir, Tugçe – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2022
The gradual restructuring of the political economy of Turkey after the 1980s has changed the positioning of the middle class and the importance of its social, economic, and cultural capitals. In particular, lowering the quality of public education through systematic privatization and Islamisation has constituted a significant threat to this class'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Development, Middle Class, Social Capital
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Guangcai, Yan – Chinese Education & Society, 2020
From a historical perspective, it was only in the modern era that the academic profession was favored by the middle and upper classes who came to dominate it. This article shows that, in contemporary China, the pattern of the middle and upper classes dominating the academic profession results from their families having a good early education and…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Faculty, Economic Factors, Social Class
Norden, Larisa Lvovna – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2021
The article highlights the history and features of parliamentarism development in the Latin America countries. In addition, the need for training on the subject and the effect of increasing students and educators' awareness in this field is examined. This process was lengthy, replete with the examples of various social groups, political trends and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History, Social Systems, Political Attitudes
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Sayer, Peter – AILA Review, 2019
There has been a rapid global expansion of English instruction in the early grades in public school curricula. Particularly in so-called developing countries, the increase of and its shift from exclusively private to public education is linked to the idea that acquiring English promotes personal, social, and economic development. The author takes…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Elacqua, Gregory; Alves, Fatima – Education Next, 2014
Two themes connect Brazil and Chile: one is economic success; the other is social unrest. Protests rocked cities across Brazil in June 2013, and in Chile, recent student protests turned violent. Yet living conditions in both nations are better now than they've ever been. Successful economic and social reforms over the last two decades have led to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Public Opinion, Middle Class
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Gavrikov, A. L. – Russian Education and Society, 2012
This article emphasizes the regional development in today's Russia and focuses on the current state of the system of higher education. The concept of elite professional education is used as a means of social mobility and an instrument for the formation of the social structure of a particular region. What prompted this approach was an analysis of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Professional Education, Middle Class, Foreign Countries
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Austin, John – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2012
The mighty heartland of the United States, the American Midwest, is certainly struggling economically. This region was the epicenter of America's industrial revolution, the arsenal of democracy in World War II, and the builder of the great blue-collar middle class that personified the American Dream. This important region made America a global…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Democratic Values, Economic Development, Democracy
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Redden, Guy; Brown, Rebecca – Critical Studies in Education, 2010
One genre of reality television constructs working-class youth as the dysfunctional antithesis of the aspirational middle-class consumer who normally features in lifestyle media. Sent to boot camps, unruly youths undergo makeover by education into ways of living deemed to accrue superior cultural capital. This article analyses how one lifestyle…
Descriptors: Television, Females, Young Adults, Sexual Identity
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Nilan, Pam; Parker, Lynette; Bennett, Linda; Robinson, Kathryn – Journal of Youth Studies, 2011
Selected survey data on future aspirations and expectations from 3565 young Indonesians are presented in this study. Muslim-majority Indonesia is an Asian economic success story. The economy has seen solid growth, leading to an expansion of the private sector. The upward credentialling of the labour market and the rapid growth of the middle class…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Private Sector, Labor Market, Marriage
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Tomlinson, Sally – Oxford Review of Education, 2008
This article attempts to explain why it is that in England, despite twentieth-century moves towards egalitarianism in education, the selection and segregation of those regarded as being gifted, talented, or of higher ability in better resourced schools and programmes is now increasingly acceptable. Explanations for moves away from attempts to…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Gifted, Knowledge Level, Skill Development
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Harrington, James J. – American Educational History Journal, 2009
In Central America the Cold War support of the elites by the United States was designed to ward off the communist threat. At the same time social and economic demands by the working and middle classes created revolutionary movements in the face of rigid and violent responses by Central American governments. Issues of social justice pervaded the…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Higher Education, Working Class, Middle Class