Publication Date
In 2025 | 0 |
Since 2024 | 0 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 5 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 6 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 9 |
Descriptor
Access to Education | 9 |
Social Differences | 9 |
Working Class | 9 |
Foreign Countries | 7 |
Social Class | 6 |
Equal Education | 3 |
Higher Education | 3 |
Social Mobility | 3 |
Student Attitudes | 3 |
Administrator Attitudes | 2 |
Barriers | 2 |
More ▼ |
Source
Author
Ball, Stephen J. | 1 |
Greer, Elizabeth | 1 |
Iannelli, Cristina | 1 |
Jin, Jin | 1 |
Palmer, Deborah K. | 1 |
Pietersen, Doniwen | 1 |
Roberts, Paul | 1 |
Smyth, Emer | 1 |
Van Galen, Jane | 1 |
Wall, Dorothy J. | 1 |
Wheelahan, Leesa | 1 |
More ▼ |
Publication Type
Journal Articles | 9 |
Reports - Research | 6 |
Reports - Descriptive | 2 |
Opinion Papers | 1 |
Reports - Evaluative | 1 |
Education Level
Higher Education | 4 |
Postsecondary Education | 3 |
Secondary Education | 2 |
Elementary Secondary Education | 1 |
Audience
Location
United Kingdom (England) | 3 |
Australia | 1 |
China | 1 |
Hungary | 1 |
Ireland | 1 |
Macedonia | 1 |
Romania | 1 |
Serbia | 1 |
South Africa | 1 |
Texas | 1 |
United Kingdom (Great Britain) | 1 |
More ▼ |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
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
Jin, Jin; Ball, Stephen J. – Critical Studies in Education, 2021
Some authors argue that access to elite universities can bring about a 'habitus transformation' for working-class students, however in this paper, based on a three-year life history study, it is suggested that the transformative effects of the elite university experience come about in relation to and constrained by the working-class habitus.…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Cultural Capital, Working Class, Selective Admission
Pietersen, Doniwen – Perspectives in Education, 2023
This article explores whether pedagogies of dialogue and care are evidenced in how lecturers engage online with their students in teaching and learning on Learning Management Systems (LMSes). Many lecturers in the online higher education landscape predominantly come from affluent educational habitus, whereas many students come from working-class…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Learning Management Systems, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
Wall, Dorothy J.; Greer, Elizabeth; Palmer, Deborah K. – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2022
As the number of dual language programs in the U.S. is on the rise, district and school administrators need to pay attention to race as they design and implement these programs to offer equitable access for all students. Utilizing a CRT and raciolinguistics framework, qualitative interview data revealed the ways that whiteness operated in school…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Race, Critical Theory, African American Students
Roberts, Paul – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2021
The interaction between doctoral education and social class is under-researched, yet is perceived to play an important part in securing social mobility. Research that does exist tends to focus on issues of access or transition, rather than considering experiences during the doctorate. This article focuses on doctoral students' experiences of…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Social Class, Social Mobility, Doctoral Students
Smyth, Emer – Oxford Review of Education, 2018
Young people in Irish schools are required to choose whether to sit secondary exam subjects at higher or ordinary level. This paper draws on a mixed methods longitudinal study of students in 12 case-study schools to trace the factors influencing take-up of higher level subjects within lower secondary education. School organisation and process are…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Mixed Methods Research, Middle Class, Working Class
Iannelli, Cristina – Higher Education Quarterly, 2007
This paper uses data from the Scottish School Leavers Surveys and the England and Wales Youth Cohort Study to analyse changes over time in gender and social class inequalities in the opportunities of young people to participate in higher education (HE) in Scotland, England and Wales. The results show that in Great Britain, in the period from the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Higher Education, Youth
Wheelahan, Leesa – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2007
This paper argues that competency-based training in vocational education and training in Australia is one mechanism through which the working class is denied access to powerful knowledge represented by the academic disciplines. The paper presents a modified Bernsteinian analysis to argue that vocational education and training students need access…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Working Class, Vocational Education, Epistemology
Van Galen, Jane – Educational Horizons, 2007
This essay outlines several ways in which educators might better prepare young people of all backgrounds to understand, enter, and eventually act upon the changing economic landscape. The contributors to this article, which presents perspectives on social class and education in the United States, suggest that one might learn some lessons from the…
Descriptors: Working Class, Social Differences, Social Class, Access to Education