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Glincy Piyus – Global Studies of Childhood, 2025
The paper examines the role of literature set in late 20th-century Kerala, India, at the intersections of class and gender, in establishing and propagating new ideals for children and childhood. During this period, Kerala gained recognition from the UN for its Kerala Model of Development, which positioned the state at the forefront of Human…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literature, Social Class, Sex
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Iskra Iveljic – Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 2024
The author analyses the education of aristocracy in Croatia and Slavonia from the late 18th century until 1918. Education played a vital role in the mindset and lifestyle of aristocracy, and in retaining its elite position in the political, social, cultural, economic and military aspect, to name just some. Aristocrats were trained to become the…
Descriptors: Social Class, Educational Practices, Private Education, Tutors
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Wanru Xu; Bram Spruyt – Educational Review, 2024
In recent years, Innovative Schools in Dali have received increasing coverage in Chinese social media and have also attracted middle-class parents from cities, as viable bottom-up educational initiatives. This paper explores the rationales for Chinese middle-class parents' choice of Innovative Schools in Dali. Analysis of data from online…
Descriptors: College Students, Middle Class, Nontraditional Education, Parents
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Yan Li – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2025
This paper explores how middle-class mothers' involvement in and how the meanings of a public school choice are shaped by the class differences in cultural capital and economic capital between the mother and father within one family. It examines the practices of choosing a public school that shapes a middle-class mother, rather than the school…
Descriptors: Social Class, Social Differences, Middle Class, Mother Attitudes
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Kolluoglu, Biray; Dinçer, Evren M. – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2023
This article studies the educational choices that secular and religious professional and managerial middle-class parents in Istanbul make for their children. It explores the ways in which class intersects with religion in Turkey where, politics, culture, social, and even economic life are marked by a deep divide among the religious and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle Class, Parent Role, Social Class
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Gupta, Achala – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2023
This article provides a Bourdieusian analysis of middle-class parents' investment in private schooling and shadow education (tutoring support) in India, thus contributes to the scholarship of class-based educational advantage. It unveils parents' aspirations for their children's education and investigates how these aspirations shape the demand for…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Social Class, Middle Class, Investment
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Tombak-Ilhan, Büsra; Gündüz, Mustafa – Power and Education, 2023
This paper aims to understand the nature of classrooms, "power containers" in Gidden's words (Giddens, 1986, p.136), in terms of inequality and power share. Inequalities in education have been a by-passed subject in Turkey for a long time, and classroom practices remained "black boxes" (Mehan, 1979, p.4). Thus, after a brief…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Power Structure, Equal Education, Teacher Student Relationship
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Ebru Eren – Online Submission, 2023
Privatization of education has expanded dramatically worldwide in the last two decades, and Turkey is no exception. It is seen that the developments affecting the transformation of public services began with the implementation of neoliberal education policies, especially after the 1980s. These policies have led to a significant transformation in…
Descriptors: Privatization, School Choice, Public Education, Foreign Countries
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Rachel Louise Stenhouse; Nicola Ingram – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2024
In this article we make an argument for the importance of embodied cultural capital in the generation of class advantage through private school students' access to Oxbridge. Private schools in England continue to reproduce advantage (Variyan 2019), however, establishing exactly how students are advantaged through private schooling is not…
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, Advantaged, Social Class, Private Schools
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Anuradha Thittai Kumar; Òscar Prieto-Flores – International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education, 2025
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the experiences of college-age mentors in a school-based mentoring (SBM) program with the aim of understanding mentor perceptions of "power." Design/methodology/approach: Seventeen mentors, comprising both undergraduate (9) and graduate (8) students, participated in this exploratory…
Descriptors: Mentors, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes
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M. Antony-Newman; S. Niyozov; K. Pashchenko – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2024
Despite the rhetoric of 'we are all in this together' during the COVID-19 pandemic, not all families experienced schooling disruption in 2020-2022 equally. Middle-class parents typically enjoy significant advantage over parents in working-class occupations. To illuminate class-based differences in parental engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic,…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Parent Participation, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Hayes, Aneta; Shain, Farzana – Whiteness and Education, 2023
This paper deconstructs ways in which the white 'race' of Eastern European pupils and the class determination of their parents in the country of arrival combine to either afford or deny them racialised privileges in British education. Critically reviewing published research on Eastern European pupils in British schools, this article concludes that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Whites, Racial Identification, Racial Factors
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Gerster, Daniel – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2020
The article explores how different concepts of "nature" were applied in secondary education in Germany around 1900 by examining the discussions on and practices in particular boarding schools. It will first scrutinise Enlightenment debates on "human nature" and how they were perceived in German secondary education in general…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Secondary Education, Boarding Schools, Criticism
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Dhawan, Nandita Banerjee; Belluigi, Dina Zoe; Idahosa, Grace Ese-Osa – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2023
The university is a highly politicized and fractious realm for students and academics. Amidst trade-offs between the processes of massification, democratization, commodification, and globalization, the question of transformation "for" sustainability has become crucial to the social good(s) of higher education. This paper considers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Colleges, College Students, First Generation College Students
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Wong, Yi-Lee – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
This paper seeks to take advantage of the concept of emotional capital to analyse how class is lived out through a critical educational failure by referring to the experiences of 64 community-college students in Hong Kong from a longitudinal qualitative study. Arguably an analysis of the emotions of middle-class and working-class respondents and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Two Year College Students, Community Colleges, Emotional Response
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