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Peer reviewedTheobald, Marjorie R. – History of Education, 1988
Examines the "accomplishments curriculum" which emerged as the dominant mode of education for middle-class girls in Britain and its colonies in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Discusses the expanded educational opportunities for women, describing their social effects, such as the early emergence of middle-class…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Educational History, Educational Opportunities, Females
Sreedhar, M. V. – 1985
Even though enrollment in elementary schools and national literacy rates have increased greatly in India since its independence in 1949, the number of dropouts and illiterate individuals will also continue to increase unless the needs of the socially disadvantaged are identified and met. The majority of the dropouts and the illiterates belong to…
Descriptors: Bias, Caste, Educational Needs, Educationally Disadvantaged
Download full textFagan, William T. – 1990
The message about general literacy standards in Canada (as reported in the Southam Literacy Survey) is that approximately five million Canadians are illiterate. The validity of this message must be challenged because a group of middle-class Canadians with middle-class values established the criteria for being "literate" and felt that all…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adults, Children, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedLiu, Judith; Kelly, Donald P. – Comparative Education Review, 1998
Three recent books that deal with China's continuing quest to create a workable educational system address the evolution of teacher education, the position of ethnic minority groups in higher education, and the historical social consequences of educational policies. Taken together, the works indicate the institutionalization of Western-style…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Book Reviews, Educational Change, Educational Development
Taveggia, Thomas C.; Hedley, R. Alan – 1975
The paper is concerned with determining from a large sample of British industrial workers, whether there is an unconditional relationship between job specialization and worker dissatisfaction, or a relationship contingent on middle-class work values. The recent work literature includes three contradictory propositions relating job specialization…
Descriptors: Blue Collar Occupations, Data Analysis, Employee Attitudes, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedGewirtz, Sharon – Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, 1996
A study of three London local education authorities explored the dynamics of British education markets. Findings showed that the market is a middle-class mode of social engagement; parental choice is class- and race-informed; schools are increasingly oriented toward meeting middle-class parents' perceived needs; and secondary schooling is becoming…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Definitions, Educational Equity (Finance), Elementary Secondary Education
