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Gilbert, Chris – Critical Studies in Education, 2021
This article features a Foucauldian analysis of interview data from a qualitative study of four North Carolina public school teachers who are required to clock in and out of school each day via a virtual time clock. In this article, Michel Foucault's theories of discourse, discipline, power, and surveillance are brought into dialogue with…
Descriptors: Public School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Time Management, Computer Simulation
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Attridge, Éireann – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2021
This study aims to add to the literature that explores the experiences of working-class students within elite higher education institutions. It has been undertaken at a time when there is a shift in higher education policy around access and widening participation: from applications and admissions to supporting students throughout the entire…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Working Class, Undergraduate Students, Student Experience
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Dean, Paul; Kelly, Claudia – Teaching Sociology, 2020
Research on educational travel has shown significant student outcomes for personal, academic, and professional growth. However, there are financial and cultural barriers that make it harder for some groups of students to participate in programs such as study abroad and shorter-term educational travel. This article examines the unique challenges…
Descriptors: Travel, Study Abroad, First Generation College Students, Undergraduate Students
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Crumb, Loni; Haskins, Natoya; Dean, Laura; Avent Harris, Janeé – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2020
Scholars have argued that there is a silence related to social class status in educational literature. Consequently, the purpose of this phenomenological study was to develop an understanding of the educational experiences of working-class African American women doctoral students at predominantly White institutions and what factors influence their…
Descriptors: Working Class, Identification (Psychology), African American Students, Females
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Mond, Hannah; Prakash, Poorvaja – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2019
Low-fee private schools (LFPS) educate some of India's poorest children. They have grown dramatically over the last decade in India and have changed the country's educational landscape (Srivastava, 2016), yet there is little conclusive evidence that the schools significantly help their students. Our study aims to better understand why and how the…
Descriptors: Motivation, School Administration, Private Schools, Fees
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Lee, Jamie Shinhee – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2016
Drawing on in-depth interviews, this article discusses folk notions of globalization and examines perceptual and attitudinal responses offered by educationally underprivileged working-class female senior citizens, arguably the most neglected and marginalized social group in contemporary Korea. The present study stresses the importance of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Older Adults, Females, Educationally Disadvantaged
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Gutstein, Eric – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 2016
This article provides an example of, and lessons from, teaching and learning critical mathematics in a Chicago public neighborhood high school with a social justice focus. It is based on a qualitative study of my untracked, 12th-grade mathematics class, a full-year enactment of mathematics for social and racial justice. Students were Black and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Urban Schools, High Schools, Social Justice