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Fedyukin, Igor – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2022
Educational reforms and introduction of compulsory schooling for nobility are rightly counted among the most important changes introduced by Peter I in Russia. This article employs a large sample of records from the Heraldry, a government agency in charge of registering nobles for their mandatory service, to assess the spread of literacy among the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Class, Compulsory Education, Literacy
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Paterson, Lindsay – Journal of Education and Work, 2022
A unique series of surveys of school leavers in Scotland (1952-98) is used to investigate long-term developments in the transition of young people from school. Transitions changed greatly in the half century, and varied by sex and socio-economic status. School attainment became increasingly important in giving school leavers access to post-school…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Educational History
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Ayhan Aksakalli – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2025
This article explores how Third Way policies have weakened class consciousness in education and how a Marxist model of education offers a powerful alternative to this weakening. By blending neoliberal approaches with social democracy, the Third Way promotes individualistic and market-oriented reforms in education, which have been found to deepen…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Social Class, Social Differences, Social Justice
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Wraga, William G. – Education and Culture, 2020
Dewey's idea of the secondary school emerged during the first thirty years of his academic career as he responded to historical realities and contemporary changes in secondary education in the United States. His advocacy of applying subject matter to the life of the student and to the life of society, integrating subject matter, an expanded…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Secondary Schools, Democracy, Educational History
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Wong, Yi-Lee – Journal of Education, 2023
This paper offers a qualitative analysis of decisions of 64 community-college students in seeking a transfer in Hong Kong. In weighing a number of educational options and then offers, with a similar level of desirability in some cases, in order to achieve their transfers, advantaged-class and disadvantaged-class respondents struggled with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community College Students, College Transfer Students, Student Attitudes
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Kopycka, Katarzyna – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2021
This paper analyzes the development of social inequality in the Polish higher education system during its expansion after 1990 using data from the Polish General Social Survey. Focusing on the special case of a former socialist society, where higher education expansion has been very rapid and achieved mainly through marketization, this paper…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Development, Educational Change, Educational Attainment
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Robertson, Susan L.; Nestore, Matias – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2022
This paper explores how, in what ways, and with what outcomes, deep structural transformations have reconstituted higher education in England, and are deeply implicated in the rise of authoritarian populism. We focus particularly on the ways in which our understandings and lived experiences of class, social mobility, meritocracy, social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Political Attitudes, Social Differences, Authoritarianism
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Woodin, Tom; Wright, Susannah – History of Education, 2023
Reviewing the historiography of education provides insights into both the past and present of this growing area of research across the UK and Ireland. In the nineteenth century research reveals a close association with national identities. These were often Whig histories that celebrated the present and emphasised the progressive nature of…
Descriptors: Educational History, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Historiography
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Thomsen, Jens-Peter – European Educational Research Journal, 2023
This paper examines whether the implementation of the Bologna bachelor's + master's structure has been followed by an increase of university students from under-represented groups, and whether the Bologna structure has been accompanied by new forms of student mobility between Danish university institutions. Looking at student movements from…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, International Cooperation, Study Abroad, Institutional Cooperation
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Jennifer Sherman; Kai A. Schafft – RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2022
In this ethnographic case study of amenity-driven rural development, we illustrate how the school as a local institution can provide social, cultural, and educational privilege to some students while systematically withholding it from others. Rural gentrification, although representing new resources to historically struggling places, can…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Rural Education, Rural Development, Social Class
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Andrew Pennington; Feng Su; Margaret Wood – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2024
Academisation of schooling in England is a significant development with consequences for the disavowal of the role of community and democracy in education at the local level and wider resonance for geo-policy jurisdictions where neoliberal education reforms play out. This study analyses the operation of power and control of Multi Academy Trust…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Neoliberalism, Accountability, Governing Boards
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Jaoul-Grammare, Magali – European Journal of Education, 2022
One of the specificities of French higher education is that there is no single higher education system but two compartmentalised and hierarchical higher education systems comprising (1) universities and (2) "grande école" higher education institutions. Competing for a place in the latter requires that students have succeeded in…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Equal Education, Geographic Regions, Social Differences
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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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Rickett, Bridgette; Morris, Anna – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2021
Previous research exploring how working-class women experience UK Higher Education (HE) work has made evident recurring themes around social segregation and corresponding difficulties with feeling they belong. This paper develops this work by exploring the ways in which UK, HE based working-class women lecturers talk about their sense of…
Descriptors: Working Class, College Faculty, Women Faculty, Higher Education
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Sahlberg, Pasi; Cobbold, Trevor – School Leadership & Management, 2021
Equity has become a central principle in educational policy and leadership around the world. However, there is a wide range of interpretations of equity and what it means in education. In this article we explore different definitions of educational equity from policy and leadership perspectives. Our aim is to give an operational definition of…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Equal Education, Educational Policy, Educational Improvement
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