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Windle, Joel – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2020
This article examines shifts in the meaning and relevance of institutionalised knowledge about social inequalities as it circulates globally. In so doing, it contributes to research critiquing an unequal geopolitics of knowledge that grants greatest authority to theories produced in the global north (Connell, 2007; Mignolo, 2003). I discuss the…
Descriptors: Social Differences, Criticism, Ethnography, Power Structure
MILLER, ROBERT W.; ZELLER, FREDRICK A. – 1967
AN ASSESSMENT IS MADE OF VARIABLES THAT ENCOURAGE OR DISCOURAGE PARTICIPATION IN AMERICAN SOCIETY. ONE VARIABLE IS THE NATURE AND EXTENT OF FELT NEEDS, WHICH ARE DETERMINED PARTLY BY PERSONALITY BUT FAR MORE--ESPECIALLY AMONG THE POOR--BY ENVIRONMENT. ANOTHER IS THE RANGE OF OPPORTUNITIES THAT ONE CAN IDENTIFY FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE LABOR MARKET…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Disadvantaged, Employment, Lower Class
Crowther, Jim, Ed.; Martin, Ian, Ed.; Shaw, Mae, Ed. – 2003
This document is intended to promote understanding of democracy in Scotland as a social and cultural process that is sustained through learning as well as through political institutions and procedures. It consists of 47 short, easy-to-read papers that can be used in existing programs (for example, modern studies and social studies) or as…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs, Athletics