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Direct linkKoh, Aaron – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2014
This paper examines the specificity of the education-class nexus in an elite independent school in Singapore. It seeks to unravel the puzzle that meritocracy is dogmatically believed in Singapore in spite of evidences that point to the contrary. The paper draws on discursive (analysis of media materials) and institutional (analysis of interview…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Class, Private Schools, High Schools
Kim, Jongyoung – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2011
This study aims to understand Korean students' motivations for studying in US graduate schools. For this purpose, I conducted in-depth interviews with 50 Korean graduate students who were enrolled in a research-centered US university at the time of the interview. In these interviews, I sought to understand how their motivations are connected not…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Higher Education, Social Class, Global Education
Gerrard, Jessica – Gender and Education, 2011
This paper compares the ways in which gender was articulated and experienced through the construction of children's education in two very different community-led educational initiatives in Britain: turn-of-the-century Socialist Sunday Schools and late-twentieth-century Black Supplementary Schools. Exploration of these historical examples of…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Sexual Identity, Masculinity, Comparative Analysis
