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Luoto, Lauri – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2023
The New Education movement was a remarkable coalition of national reform movements that emerged at the turn of the twentieth century. As a heterogeneous movement that was united only in its opposition to the schooling system at the time, its structure and boundaries in the UK have remained a matter of academic debate. This article implements the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational History, Social Change, Social Networks
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Rupamanjari Hegde – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2025
A national system of education in modern nation-states is usually geared towards nation-building and schools play a significant role in grooming children as future citizens. While the dominant and powerful usually emerge as the 'ideal citizen' in the national imagination, the marginalized are constructed as the 'other', vilified, and stigmatised.…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Citizenship Education, Hidden Curriculum, Citizen Participation
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Athira, B. K.; Rajendran, Poornima – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2023
There are steps formally initiated by the Government of India to maintain its adherence to the norms of Inclusive Education. Such schemes, acts and policy drafts are brought into discussion in this paper along with an appraisal of their draft and scope. This include the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan which became operational from the year 2001, The Right…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Diversity, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
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Malhar Deshmukh; Deepika Sharma; Sneha Prasad; Sushmita Dey; Anurag Rai – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
In Indian society, caste is assigned to us before birth. Caste positions individuals in a social, economic, and political hierarchy. This study explores the meaning of caste discrimination from the perspectives of individuals who experience it in their everyday lives. Many studies have focused on the causes and consequences of caste discrimination…
Descriptors: Social Class, Constructivism (Learning), Grounded Theory, Social Discrimination
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Enu, Donald Bette; Joseph, Gimba – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2018
Education is and will continue to be a major determinant of social mobility in Nigeria with a deep attachment to paper qualifications. It determines social class and breaks barriers of all kind of divides in the society. Education largely and increasingly determines an individual's job choice and income. It has more impact than any other factor,…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Social Class, Foreign Countries, Educational Mobility
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Young, David – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2021
Despite the numerous reforms that Thailand's educational system has undergone, test scores show that a majority of the population still lacks the ability to use English with the skill required to compete in the international community. While many reasons have been proposed for Thailand's poor ranking, only a small number have looked beyond…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Class, Social Differences, Second Language Learning
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Syamprasad, K. V. – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2019
This article aims to offer a theoretical critique of the propaganda against the affirmative action programmes, as well as to unpack the veil of merit and provide justifications for affirmative action for the underprivileged in Kerala. For this purpose, Bourdieu's concept of cultural capital and its origin would be introduced as the central focus…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Class, Cultural Capital, Affirmative Action
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Tupas, Ruanni – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2020
Much has been written about the linguistics, pragmatics and politics of the pluralization of English under conditions of colonization and globalization. By and large, however, the focus of the work on World Englishes has understandably been on "Englishes" rather than the "world". This paper explores the theoretical potential of…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
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Yue, Zhiqiang; Yin, Ke – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2020
Based on the findings of the China General Social Survey, this study aims to analyze the trend of the intergenerational mobility in China since the implementation of the reform and opening-up policy by evaluating the absolute and relative mobility rates through the mobility table. The intergenerational mobility level in China is relatively high…
Descriptors: Generational Differences, Parents, Children, Adults
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Börjesson, Mikael; Dalberg, Tobias – European Journal of Higher Education, 2021
Since the mid-twentieth century, higher education has been subject to spectacular growth. While the expansion of higher education is undoubtedly a general trend, its actual characteristics in terms of its specific conditions and driving forces vary by context. In this article, our aim is to develop such a socio-political historical narrative of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Neoliberalism, Marketing
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Burger, Kaspar; Walk, Marlene – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2016
Research has shown that parents tend to pass educational advantage or disadvantage on to their children. However, little is known about the extent to which the intergenerational transmission of education involves children's agency. In this study we drew from two traditions in sociological and social psychological theorizing--the theory of cultural…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Social Class, Social Structure, Achievement Tests
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Avalos-Rivera, Alys D. – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2020
The process by which novice language teachers negotiate their professional identity has been described as mediated by factors such as peers' support, mentor's influence, and even ideologies such as the native speakers' fallacy. However, the role that students may play in these negotiations still needs attention. The present study examines how a…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Professional Identity, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Gamsu, Sol – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2020
This paper examines how the English educational state has consistently acted to support private schooling in areas where fee-paying schools would be otherwise financially unviable. Educational data on private school participation since the 2008 financial crisis reveals the stark regional divides between London and the South-East of England and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle Class, Private Schools, Financial Support
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Mayorga, Rodrigo – Curriculum Inquiry, 2017
In Chile, some elite private schools have developed a particular approach towards citizenship education, acknowledging the privileged social position their students occupy, while inviting them to disrupt the same social structure that has produced this privilege. However, the enduring salience of Chilean society's inequalities begs the question of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Citizenship Education, Private Schools, Service Learning
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Sehgal Cuthbert, Alka – English in Education, 2019
This paper draws on Gramsci's concept of hegemony to locate the Newbolt Report, published in 1921, within a context of the weakening political authority of Britain's ruling class. One indication of this is the fact that in 1917 200,000 workers were involved in strikes in 48 British towns. The moral and cultural dimensions of the problems facing…
Descriptors: Moral Values, English Instruction, English Curriculum, Reports
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