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Zhao, Yiran Vicky; Bhattacharjea, Suman; Alcott, Benjamin – Oxford Review of Education, 2023
There is near consensus that early childhood education and care (ECEC) is essential to children's early development. A common corollary is that early learning will be pivotal to helping redress inequities in educational outcomes. We examine whether this is true among rural communities in the Indian states of Assam, Rajasthan, and Telangana.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Early Childhood Education, Disadvantaged
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Sayer, Peter – AILA Review, 2019
There has been a rapid global expansion of English instruction in the early grades in public school curricula. Particularly in so-called developing countries, the increase of and its shift from exclusively private to public education is linked to the idea that acquiring English promotes personal, social, and economic development. The author takes…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Apple, Michael W., Ed.; Ball, Stephen J., Ed.; Gandin, Luis Armando, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2009
This collection brings together many of the world's leading sociologists of education to explore and address key issues and concerns within the discipline. The thirty-seven newly commissioned chapters draw upon theory and research to provide new accounts of contemporary educational processes, global trends, and changing and enduring forms of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Higher Education, Middle Class