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The 2019 Chicago Teachers' Union Strike: Meeting Student Needs Analysed through Nancy Fraser's 'Politics of Need Interpretation'
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Welsh, Sally – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2022
This article analyses the narratives and counter-narratives which characterised the struggle between the Chicago Public School Board (CPS) and the Chicago Teachers' Union (CTU) preceding the 2019 Chicago teachers' strike. This was an extraordinary event which has received little scholarly attention. The paper explores the types and uses of the…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Unions, Politics of Education, Strikes
"There Was Never Really Any Question of Anything Else": Young People's Agency, Institutional Habitus and the Transition to Higher Education
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Smyth, Emer; Banks, Joanne – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2012
International research into educational decision-making has been extensive, focusing on the way in which young people and their families assess the different options open to them. However, to what extent can we assume that different groups of young people have equal access to the information needed to make such an assessment? And what role, if…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Young Adults, Adolescents, College Bound Students
Too Comfortable? Young People, Social Capital Development and the FHE Institutional Habitus
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Morrison, Andrew – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2009
Drawing upon a case-study of the students and teaching staff of an Advanced Vocational Certificate of Education (AVCE) in Travel and Tourism, this paper examines the effects of the institutional habitus of a Further and Higher Education (FHE) college upon the higher education choices of a group of ethnically-mixed, working-class young people. The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Vocational Education, Young Adults, College Choice
Men Accessing Education: Masculinities, Class and Choice
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Woodin, Tom; Burke, Penny Jane – Australian Educational Researcher, 2007
This paper draws on an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded research project on men (aged 18-54) participating in pre-university access and foundation programs in four London further and higher education colleges. Men's educational choices and decisions are analysed and discussed within current policy debates about widening…
Descriptors: Working Class, Middle Class, Foundation Programs, Lifelong Learning
Playing a Different Game: The Contextualised Decision-Making Processes of Minority Ethnic Students in Choosing a Higher Education Institution
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Smith, Heather – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2007
This paper adds to the small but growing body of literature which probes the complex decision-making processes undertaken by minority ethnic students, and particularly working-class minority ethnic students, when choosing a higher education institution. Previous studies have focussed on areas with ethnically diverse local populations. This article…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Community Colleges, Foreign Countries, Decision Making
A Primary-Grade Teacher's Guidance toward Small-Group Dialogue
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McIntyre, Ellen; Kyle, Diane W.; Moore, Gayle H. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2006
The purpose of this study was to describe how one primary teacher of poor and working class rural students promoted small-group dialogue about books and literary concepts. Specifically, we focused on how she guided the students from the beginning of a lesson in ways that later led to dialogue during a videotaped four-day lesson sequence. We…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Cues, Working Class, Rural Education