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Juliette Wilson-Thomas; Ruby Juanita Brooks – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2024
In 2019 Ofsted introduced cultural capital (CC) into the Early Years Inspection Handbook and defined it as 'essential knowledge' related to 'educated citizenship'. This paper investigates Ofsted's use of CC to critically examine the potential implications for early years work. Due to the feminised nature of early years work, a critical feminist…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Capital, Early Childhood Education, Inspection
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Yau Yu Chan; Hei-hang Hayes Tang – Education and Urban Society, 2025
Rising educational inequality is considered as one pressing social problem in many national education systems. There is limited existing literature that examines how youth from different social backgrounds perceive and consider social inequalities and "justice." This study addresses this research gap by probing the perspectives of…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Student Empowerment, Neoliberalism, Educational Practices
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Kneppers, Anneke M. A. – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2023
Using a comparative case study, this paper explores the pedagogic practices for regulating behaviour in two Norwegian primary school classrooms with social compositions that become increasingly contrasted due to an increasing school segregation. Based on classroom observations and teacher interviews and using Bernstein's concepts of 'framing' and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Schools, Educational Practices, Student Behavior
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Hall, James; Allan, Alexandra; Tomlinson, Michael; Kelly, Anthony; Lindorff, Ariel – Oxford Review of Education, 2021
The concept of capital has risen in prominence within educational policy and practice in the UK since Ofsted introduced cultural capital into its inspection processes in 2019. At the same time, fractured discourses exist across different types of capital -- one of which concerns capitals that are negative in constitution and/or impact. This paper…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Equal Education, Cultural Capital, Inspection
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Jaffer, Shaheeda – Pythagoras, 2020
In South Africa, differential performance in school mathematics with respect to social class remains an enduring concern as reflected in national and international large-scale assessments. The article examines the implications of evaluation for orientations to mathematics in a school populated by learners from upper-middle-class or elite…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Grade 10, Secondary School Mathematics
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Hardy, Ian – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2019
This article reveals the multiple ways in which data are constituted as a vehicle for governing teachers' work and learning. Drawing on the concept of governance, including in relation to the sociology of numbers, and data from one school in Queensland, Australia, the research reveals how teachers' work and learning were constituted through…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Governance, Educational Objectives, Alignment (Education)
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Stanger, Camilla – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2018
In this article I present a discussion about the purpose of education of, for and with black, working class, young women within an inner-London, twenty-first century college, and explore the complex and imperfect ways that educational purpose translates into educational practice. I discuss the respective value of two contrasting discourses of…
Descriptors: College Students, African American Students, Working Class, Females
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Simpson, Katherine; Simmons, Robin – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2019
This paper focuses on the educational experiences of pupils at 'Lillydown Primary', a state school for 3-11 year olds, located in a former mining community in the north of England. It mobilises Avery Gordon's notion of social haunting to illustrate how experiences of school are shaped not only by current socioeconomic circumstances but also by…
Descriptors: Mining, History, Social Class, Foreign Countries
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Walker, Martyn – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2017
When mechanics' and similar institutions became established for adults by the middle of the nineteenth century, there was goodwill amongst committee members and volunteers to teach the classes. The institutes were not government-funded and relied on patronage and membership fees to fund them. There was a shortage of teachers for the classes as…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Teacher Supply and Demand, Postsecondary Education, Educational History
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Terhoven, René; Fataar, Aslam – South African Journal of Education, 2018
This article focuses on the way in which the school management teams (SMTs) of three selected working-class schools have developed and implemented a range of leadership practices within their schools in order to provide a platform for optimal teaching and learning. The article is based on qualitative research conducted in schools on the outskirts…
Descriptors: Working Class, Curriculum Development, Educational Policy, Leadership Role
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Formosinho, João – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2021
This article analyses the impact on Early Years Education policy of the crisis provoked by COVID 19 pandemia and raises some questions about the future. For a better understanding of this impact COVID 19, I present the construction of this educational level since the nineteenth century contrasting two essential models -- the educational assistance…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education
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Burnell, Iona – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2015
Bourdieu's theories enable us to conceptualise and understand why some people participate in higher education and some do not. Focussing on the working class as the marginalised social group in HE, Bourdieu demonstrated how education perpetuates inequality and lack of opportunity. The theories, or "thinking tools" as he called them,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Social Capital, Working Class, Interviews
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Edwards, Gail; Canaan, Joyce – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2015
In this paper, we evaluate, and highlight the tensions between, radical, critical and Marxist education as they have played out in British education since the Enlightenment. Our argument has several parts. First, like other Marxists, we believe that consciousness is shifted as much through engagement with class struggle as through ideas. We…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Marxian Analysis, Educational Theories, Educational Practices
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Barron, Hester – History of Education, 2013
This article examines the experience of the "school journey", an educational fieldtrip of a fortnight's duration, as practised in London's interwar elementary schools. Established historical debates over perceptions of the countryside in interwar Britain have previously failed to discuss the messages promoted in schools. This article…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Rural Areas, Ideology, Nationalism
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Nylund, Mattias; Rosvall, Per-Åke – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2016
A key feature of the Swedish upper secondary school reform of 2011 (GY11) is the new direction it sets out for the organization of vocational education (VET) and the role it plays in youths' transitions from school to work. This study analyses the GY11 reform in terms of its impact on the organization of knowledge in VET and its implications for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Secondary Education, Secondary School Students
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