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Direct linkRobert Archer – New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 2024
The aim of this article is to extend the explanatory power of Martin Thrupp's legacy within the framework of critical realism. Specifically, it argues that critical realism's methodological complement, the morphogenetic approach, provides a metatheoretical toolkit that can deepen and expand Thrupp's realist analysis of school contexts. The article…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Culture, Social Structure, Educational Policy
Crow, Gary; Day, Christopher; Møller, Jorunn – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2017
This paper provides a basis for a tentative framework for guiding future research into principals' identity construction and development. It is situated in the context of persisting emphases placed by government policies on the need for technocratic competencies in principals as a means of demonstrating success defined largely as compliance with…
Descriptors: Principals, Professional Identity, Instructional Leadership, Social Structure
Vorhaus, John – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2014
Social capital is frequently offered up as a variable to explain such educational outcomes as academic attainment, drop-out rates and cognitive development. Yet, despite its popularity amongst social scientists, social capital theory remains the object of some scepticism, particularly in respect of its explanatory ambitions. I provide an account…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Educational Attainment, Social Theories, Educational Theories
van Aalst, Jan; Truong, Mya Sioux – International Journal of Science Education, 2011
The phrase "knowledge creation" refers to the practices by which a community advances its collective knowledge. Experience with a model of knowledge creation could help students to learn about the nature of science. This research examined how much progress a teacher and 16 Primary Five (Grade 4) students in the International…
Descriptors: Summative Evaluation, Advanced Placement Programs, Scientific Principles, Social Structure
Forsey, Martin – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2010
Based mainly on my own ethnographic research, which is committed to uncovering the constructed or "practiced" nature of social life, I seek to demonstrate the ways in which Australian school teachers, administrators, students and parents are engaged in a re-productive process that simultaneously reinforces and reinvents schools and…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Social Life, Ethnography, Educational Environment
Yeung, See-Wai Alison; Lee, Yeung; Yue, K. W. Ryan – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2006
Banks (2002) stated that to implement multicultural education successfully, we must think of the school as a social system. Therefore, if educational equity and excellence are to be provided to all students, a systemic Total School Environment [Banks (2001) "Cultural diversity and education: Foundations curriculum and teaching, 4th ed." Allyn and…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Multicultural Education, Equal Education, School Culture
