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Mcdossi, Oded – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2023
Inequality scholarship has long highlighted the role of education, including higher education, in both mobility processes and the reproduction of disadvantage. This article, drawing on a unique sample of nearly 22,000 undergraduate students in Israel, builds on and extends this body of work by analyzing the extent to which double majoring in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Majors (Students), Decision Making, Foreign Countries
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Dunn-Jensen, Linda M.; Ryan, Katherine C.; Bradshaw, Christopher C. – Management Teaching Review, 2023
Individuals who are privileged are often unaware of the unearned advantages that they have. Because of this lack of awareness, individuals with privilege may attribute poor performance of a non-privileged individual to that individual's lack of effort or ability, rather than recognizing that the non-privileged person may not have had sufficient…
Descriptors: Resource Allocation, Rewards, Advantaged, Diversity
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Gregor Schäfer; Katharina Walgenbach – European Journal of Higher Education, 2024
This article examines the relevance of different institutional levels in higher education for the educational strategies of upper milieu students in a case study conducted in Germany. Based on our analysis of 95 qualitative interviews with Masters students from different social backgrounds, we show how upper milieu students take advantage of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Masters Degrees, Graduate Students, Reputation
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Derya Gultekin; Seda Yildiz – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2025
Educational equality is a priority in sustaining economic and human development. This study examines regional educational inequality in Türkiye by considering educational attainment, income distribution, and education spending. Average years of schooling improved in all regions between 2008 and 2020. The Education Gini and Theil indexes indicate…
Descriptors: Geographic Regions, Equal Education, Educational Attainment, Economic Development
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Maurizio Toscano; Steven A. Stolz – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2025
We explore social justice advocacy and education from the vantage point of elite theory as articulated in the works of Gaetano Mosca and Vilfredo Pareto. Elite theory is applied here to re-appraise the explicit and implicit educational means and ends inspired by contemporary social justice along three inter-related dimensions: the place of…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Social Theories, Advantaged, Cultural Maintenance
Adelay Elizabeth Witherite – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Drawing upon three individual interviews with each of five students enrolled in a first-year writing (FYW) course I observed throughout a semester, this dissertation explores how a group of socially privileged students emotionally experienced, interpreted, and responded to discourses of differences encountered in their FYW course. Contributing to…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Freshman Composition, Psychological Patterns, Advantaged
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Mark Bray – Prospects, 2024
Recent decades have brought significant worldwide expansion of private supplementary tutoring. Demand is especially driven by social competition, which has intensified in the context of globalization. The main suppliers of tutoring are serving teachers, commercial enterprises, and informal providers such as university students. Private tutoring…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Social Differences, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis
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David M. Blau – State Education Standard, 2024
Children from low-income families face many social and economic disadvantages, and high-quality preschool can help to alleviate some of them. Is "preschool for all" the best way to extend preschool subsidies to unserved disadvantaged children? Fully funding such a policy would be costly, and it is likely that a significant minority of…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Educational Quality, Low Income Students
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Waters, Johanna L. – British Educational Research Journal, 2023
This paper reflects on the importance of 'time spent' in understanding the international student experience. Short-term mobility programmes (involving stays of between 1 week and 2 months) attracting less privileged students, such as the relatively new Turing Scheme in the United Kingdom, have been hailed as a potential 'solution' to the fact…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries, Educational Experience
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Cameron Meiklejohn; Stewart Riddle; Andrew Hickey – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
This paper reflects on the recounts of a group of 'old boys' about their transition from elite schools to university. Analysis of semi-structured interview data reveals that this transition was not always straightforward. Although educational background has traditionally determined access to, and progress through, university, this paper details…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Males, Undergraduate Study, College Choice
Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, 2024
It is widely accepted that investing in early childhood helps build the foundations of a healthy, productive, and equitable society. Guided by that knowledge, a range of broad-based programs and targeted services make a significant difference for millions of children, yet a closer look at outcome data shows that some benefit greatly, some benefit…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Equal Education, Educational Discrimination
Denae A. Lawson – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This ex post facto, causal-comparative quantitative study examined the relationship between student socioeconomic status and academic achievement at affluent North Texas schools. Social constructionism, critical theory, and cultural and social reproduction theory were used as the foundation of the study. Using archival data from the 2018-2019…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Socioeconomic Status, Mathematics Achievement, Reading Achievement
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Rubkwan Thammaboosadee – Designs for Learning, 2025
This paper examines the practical application of "Stardust Odyssey: City's Last Stand," a tabletop game designed to support experiential learning about socio-economic inequality within Thailand's neoliberal education system. Anchored in Process Drama and Design-Based Research (DBR), the study explores how the game operates as an…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Educational Games, Foreign Countries, Drama
Ellen Bryer – Grantee Submission, 2022
Support for higher education is a known and well-documented venue for financial transfers within families, but practices of family support beyond college are less understood. Drawing on interviews with recent master's degrees recipients who have student debt, I find key class differences in the process and forms of family financial assistance for…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Debt (Financial), Social Differences, Middle Class
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Xian Zhang; Yuanchao Wang – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2025
Gender differences in non-cognitive abilities are important in explaining the "female advantage" in education. The existing literature, however, has not yet given a clear answer as to why gender differences in non-cognitive skills arise. Based on the theoretical perspective of social interaction, this research analyses how parenting…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Gender Differences, Social Class, Foreign Countries
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