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Julio Bertolin; Orlanda Tavares; Cristina Sin – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2024
This article analyses whether Brazilian graduates feel that their higher education programmes have contributed to the development of civic competences (ethics, critical thinking and respect for diversity), necessary to become active citizens in a democratic and fair society. The analysis considers disciplines and students' socioeconomic and…
Descriptors: Ethics, Democratic Values, Social Justice, Citizen Participation
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Ho, Yann-Ru; Tseng, Wei-Chieh – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2022
As Paulo Freire's education theory for social change and emancipation is being continually studied and disseminated in East Asia, it has faced skepticism as some educators are unfamiliar with its critical pedagogy or education for freedom concepts. In light of this, scholars have attempted to compare Freirean philosophies with concepts in Chinese…
Descriptors: Social Change, Educational Philosophy, Foreign Countries, Confucianism
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Murillo, F. Javier; Belavi, Guillermina – Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2021
There is evidence of the impact of school segregation on students' academic achievement, but it is debated whether the extent of this impact is dependent on students' socioeconomic status, or on their native or non-native condition. This research addresses the problem in Spain, seeking to determine how immigrant and socioeconomic segregation…
Descriptors: School Segregation, Academic Achievement, Immigrants, Peer Groups
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Rich, Rebecca; Paschal, Angelia – Health Education Journal, 2020
Objective: Healthy equity (HE) implies the highest possible standard of health for all people while giving special attention to the needs of those at greatest risk of poor health, based on social conditions. The social determinants of health (SDH) are conditions within the environment in which people live that shape their opportunity to attain…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Health, Social Differences, Health Promotion
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Francis, Becky; Craig, Nicole; Hodgen, Jeremy; Taylor, Becky; Tereshchenko, Antonina; Connolly, Paul; Archer, Louise – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2020
The impact of self-fulfilling prophecy in education, and of attainment grouping on pupil self-perception, remain topics of longstanding debate, with important consequences for social in/justice. Focusing on self-confidence, this article draws on survey responses from 9,059 12-13 year olds who were tracked by subject ('setting'). They provided…
Descriptors: Track System (Education), Educational Attainment, Social Justice, Self Esteem
Menter, Ian, Ed. – Springer, 2023
This handbook presents a timeless, comprehensive, and up-to-date resource covering major issues in the field of teacher education research. In a global landscape where migration, inequality, climate change, political upheavals and strife continue to be broadly manifest, governments and scholars alike are increasingly considering what role…
Descriptors: Guides, Teacher Education, Educational Research, Immigration
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Gormley, Kathleen; McDermott, Peter – Educational Forum, 2014
In this study, we collected and analyzed data to examine the extent to which the achievement gap between urban and suburban children extended to their knowledge of digital literacies. Findings indicated that the suburban children outperformed the urban students in each of the performance areas, and that suburban children reported greater…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Suburban Schools, Comparative Analysis, Achievement Gap
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McGinnity, Frances; Calvert, Emma – Social Indicators Research, 2009
Recent debates on time-use suggest that there is an inverse relationship between time poverty and income poverty (Aguiar and Hurst in Q J Econ C(3):969-1006, "2007"), with Hammermesh and Lee (Rev Econ Stat 89(2):374-383, "2007") suggesting much time poverty is "yuppie kvetch" or "complaining". Gershuny (Soc…
Descriptors: Social Class, Conflict, Family Work Relationship, Foreign Countries
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Brown, Lionel H.; Larsen, Judith; Britt, Ruth S.; Yao, Yao; Brown, Jean P.; Beck, Ryan – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2006
In this first-person paper, educator Dr. Lionel Brown takes a sweeping look at the racial crises that have erupted in his home city of Cincinnati during his lifetime, and proposes that education is the only real, long-term way of addressing and disrupting the repeating pattern of violence. He highlights a selection of current and proposed…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Race, Conflict, Social Justice