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Wilson, Alastair; Hunter, Katie – Scottish Educational Review, 2023
Analysis of data on school leavers in Scotland points towards considerable inequality in access to higher education. This is highlighted in terms of participation in higher education by young people from lower-income households or identifying as first in their families to consider going to university. The situation is more acute in terms of access…
Descriptors: Working Class, Medical Education, Medicine, Social Capital
Alejandro Montes – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2024
In a context of universalization of Higher Education (HE) and fragmentation of educational trajectories, consolidating a process of educational and social mobility implies, for many students with non-traditional backgrounds, important identity conflicts. Based on 40 qualitative interviews with non-traditional working-class students enrolled in an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Nontraditional Students, Working Class
Qianyun Yu; Yang Song – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2024
Despite an extensive body of literature that has examined the role of museums in cultural reproduction and public education, most of the current discussion is western-centred. Whilst explorations of museum education in developing countries often focus on the institution, the agency perspective regarding how different social groups negotiate access…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Museums, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences
Paulo Henrique de Souza Lima; Glauciana Alves Teles; Aldiva Sales Diniz – Journal of Education and Learning, 2024
Access to education for peasants in the history of Brazilian society has always been denied, with the absence of public policies for peasants, as the result of a political and social process of denial of minority groups. The text address the issue of closure of schools in the countryside as a growing social phenomenon that has been expanding in…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational History, Foreign Countries, Poverty
Yu, Kaidong – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2022
This paper examines the history of the expansion of educational opportunities in the UK, to understand how different generations of working-class students managed to access HE. Based on 23 life-story interviews with working-class students, the study highlights how the changing dynamics of the structure of compulsory education and the labour…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Working Class, Students, Access to Education
González-Motos, Sheila; Saurí Saula, Enric – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2023
Access to early child education services has been proven to be an efficient tool in fighting educational inequalities. However, while wealthier families are likely to use childcare services, disadvantaged children tend to be left out. Research has explained this effect, known as Mathew Effect, and has studied both the constraints in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschools, Preschool Education, Educational Policy
Alam, Gazi Mahabubul – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2021
Theoretically, education supports improving graduates' socioeconomic outcomes and careers by injecting citizenship values and making sure they are employable. Evidence confirms that socioeconomic background influences the level of education achieved which in turn greatly shapes the careers of graduates. Relevant knowledges and competencies are the…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Socioeconomic Background, Engineering Education, Career Development
Calanit Tsalach – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2022
A central element in the writing of marginal subjects is the personal and autobiographical voice they use to write about themselves and their experiences. This article uses a personal voice- autoethnography - to examine, in a multi-layered manner, one-stop of the author's educational biography and her path, as a working-class Mizrahi woman, to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Jews, Ethnicity, Intersectionality
Rodd, Piper; Sanders, Kellie – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2023
This paper provides insight into working-class parents' views of the structural and systemic injustices shaping post-school options and opportunities in contemporary Australia, drawing on interview data with a group of mothers living in growth corridor suburbs in the outer west of Melbourne. Illustrating aspects of Berlant's (2011) notion of…
Descriptors: Working Class, Parents, Mothers, Equal Education
Hlatshwayo, Mondli – Education as Change, 2022
After the announcement of a national lockdown by the South African state in March 2020, university students and lecturers had to conduct learning activities online. In countries where reliable information and communications technologies exist, this transition was relatively smooth. Students were able to learn using internet-based online learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
Kaiser, Tim; Miethe, Ingrid; Piepiorka, Alexandra; Kriele, Tobias – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2021
Searching for development paths and suitable educational policies, postcolonial governments often turned to the experiences of other countries and sought to adapt these to their own contexts. Research on such processes has largely neglected the resulting entanglements between postcolonial and European socialist countries, and between different…
Descriptors: Educational History, Postcolonialism, Educational Policy, Social Systems
Hope, Julia; Quinlan, Kathleen M. – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
This paper presents the experiences of mature students at a satellite campus of an English higher education institution. Twenty students over age 25 who fit various widening participation criteria were interviewed at four points during their first two years of bachelor's level study at a higher education (HE) centre in an area underserved by HE.…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Undergraduate Students, White Students, Working Class
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
Wilson, Suzanne; Worsley, Aidan – British Educational Research Journal, 2021
International authors have argued that social class inequalities can influence parental engagement in education. Lareau argued that middle-class families possess the resources to actively cultivate their children to succeed academically, whereas working-class and poor families feel they lack such resources and allow their children to develop…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Class, Social Differences, Working Class
Dlamini, Sipho – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2019
The protests that engulfed South African universities in 2015 and 2016 revealed a dissatisfaction by students with regard to higher education fees. This article looks at some of the lessons that could assist South Africa in understanding the role of universal fee-free higher education or fee-free higher education for the poor. Most countries in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Fees, Costs, Activism