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Brine, Jacky – Gender and Education, 2006
Through a discourse of diversity, specialism, equality and choice, selective schooling is again on the UK education agenda. A previous selection policy operated between 1944 and 1964. The argument that some children are more suited to a vocational education and others to an academic one is evident now and then. This paper focuses on the…
Descriptors: Adults, Working Class, Biographies, Females
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Wilgus, Gay – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2006
Research literature suggests that adults from working-class minority backgrounds demonstrate authoritarian and coercive tendencies in their choices of disciplinary strategies when compared with adults from middle-class, "white", "Anglo", or "North American" backgrounds. However, in a recent study in New York City,…
Descriptors: Working Class, Discipline, Educational Practices, Preschool Teachers