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Xi Wu; Paul Tarc – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Given the widened access to Chinese higher education, a large proportion of students studying at Chinese colleges come from rural lower-class families and encounter different challenges in English language learning. By using Bourdieu's social theoretical lenses, this case study explores how the interplay of capital, habitus and social fields…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Working Class, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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
Parker, Philip D.; Marsh, Herbert W.; Guo, Jiesi; Anders, Jake; Shure, Nikki; Dicke, Theresa – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2018
In this paper, we develop an information distortion model (IDM) of social class differences in self-beliefs and values. The IDM combines psychological biases on frame-of-reference effects with sociological foci on ability stratification. This combination is hypothesized to lead to working-class children having more positive math self-beliefs and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Academic Aspiration, Social Class, Longitudinal Studies
Salvation or a Broken Promise? Two Adult Graduates' Social Positioning in Education and Working Life
Siivonen, Päivi; Komulainen, Katri; Räty, Hannu; Korhonen, Maija; Kasanen, Kati; Rautiainen, Riitta – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2016
Finland has been celebrated as a country where everyone has the possibility to educate themselves and to get ahead in life through education. However, social differences of educability continue to persist and social differences of employability are further construed in the neo-liberal market economy. In this article we will examine 2 adult…
Descriptors: Social Differences, Academic Education, Employment Potential, Foreign Countries
Waller, Richard; Harrison, Neil; Hatt, Sue; Chudry, Farooq – Journal of Education and Work, 2014
This paper reports findings from a study of 49 young first-year UK undergraduates who had undergone one or two weeks of work experience at school between the ages of 14 and 16. Previous studies focusing on the whole school cohort suggested that the nature of work experience placements was strongly predicted by class. In particular, middle class…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Work Experience Programs, Social Differences
Hempel-Jorgensen, Amelia – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2015
Existing international research suggests that widespread performative pedagogy has contributed to producing educational inequalities for "disadvantaged" learners. There have also been calls for alternative pedagogies, which can be characterised as child-centred. This paper analyses pupils' hierarchical positioning in a contemporary,…
Descriptors: Working Class, Females, Student Centered Curriculum, Social Justice
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
Connolly, Paul; Healy, Julie – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2004
This article is based upon a comparative, ethnographic case study of two groups of 10-11-year-old boys--one middle-class, the other working-class--living in Belfast. Drawing upon Bourdieu's related concepts of symbolic violence and habitus, it shows how locality can help to explain the very different educational and career aspirations found…
Descriptors: Social Class, Academic Aspiration, Males, Foreign Countries
Lareau, Annette – 1989
Social class influences parent involvement in schooling. This book uses the case study method to compare family-school relationships in a working-class elementary school with those in an upper middle-class school, focusing on one first grade class in each school, and within the two schools, on 12 families, over the course of their children's first…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary Education, Family School Relationship, Middle Class