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Direct linkSmith, Jonathan F.; Skrbiš, Zlatko – British Educational Research Journal, 2017
Meritocratic ideals, which emphasise individual responsibility and self-motivation, have featured prominently in discourses about Australia's international competitiveness in academic achievement. Young people are often encouraged to attribute academic success and failure to individual factors such as hard work and talent, and to downplay…
Descriptors: Social Differences, Competition, Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement
Green, Patrice Tolbert – ProQuest LLC, 2012
African Americans have a long and very important history in the engineering fields. With a tradition that includes accomplished scientists such as George Washington Carver, Norman Buknor, and Mark Dean, African Americans have been very important to the development of new products, technology, inventions, and innovations (Gordon, 2008). The…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Academic Persistence, African Americans, Disproportionate Representation
