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Jamal Al-deen, Taghreed – Australian Educational Researcher, 2018
In this paper, I draw on a qualitative study of Iraqi-born Muslim mothers in Australia exploring how they navigate choosing secondary schools for their daughters. While the mothers interviewed for this study agreed on the importance of education and its role in facilitating upward social mobility for all their children, they articulated a specific…
Descriptors: School Choice, Gender Differences, Migrants, Reputation
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Baker, Jayne – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2014
Although we know a great deal about college choice in nations such as the United States, we know considerably less about how college choice operates in settings lacking well-defined hierarchies between higher education institutions. In the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, students from high socio-economic status backgrounds are…
Descriptors: College Choice, Institutional Characteristics, Reputation, School Effectiveness
Samuels, Jeffrey D. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) is an established field of academic inquiry with distinct applications for second language teaching and learning. Many CALL professionals direct language labs or language resource centers (LRCs) in which CALL software applications and generic software applications support language learning programs and…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computer Software Selection