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Tripney, Janice; Hogrebe, Nina; Schmidt, Elena; Vigurs, Carol; Stewart, Ruth – Research on Social Work Practice, 2019
Objective: To identify, appraise, and synthesize studies of interventions to improve labor market outcomes of adults in developing countries with physical and/or sensory disabilities. Method: Systematic review methods, following Campbell Collaboration guidelines, were utilized. A comprehensive search was used to identify relevant studies published…
Descriptors: Employment Services, Adults, Supported Employment, Physical Disabilities
Mao, Jina; Feldman, Elana – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2019
In this paper, we explore the methodological implications of conducting qualitative interviews when researchers and participants come from different social classes. Singling out class on its own terms, rather than considering it as an auxiliary structural factor, we examine the unique challenges that arise during cross-class interviews. Such…
Descriptors: Social Class, Qualitative Research, Interviews, Interpersonal Relationship
Webb, Mark Alan Porter – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Over the past two decades, educational debt has quickly transformed US colleges and universities into spaces of cruel optimism: the higher education that students desire is all too often an obstacle to their flourishing. This study maps the contours of the white, middle-class attachment to the college dream, paying particular attention to the…
Descriptors: Debt (Financial), Loan Repayment, White Students, Middle Class
Eriksen, Ingunn Marie – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2021
Mental health problems among young people have increased in recent decades, particularly among middle-class youth, a development often related to increasing achievement pressure. This paper explores how young people from the financial and cultural middle classes in Norway experience school stress and their parents' values and practices concerning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mental Health, Mental Disorders, Middle Class
Laura Mentini – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2024
In Italy, the National Evaluation System (SNV), encompassing both internal and external accountability components, is designed not only to hold school actors accountable but also to stimulate innovation and change in pedagogical practices. Nevertheless, existing literature presents inconclusive and contradictory findings regarding the effects and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Innovation, Educational Policy, Instructional Leadership
Liu, Ruo-Fan – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2022
Students attain cultural knowledge to navigate college admissions, yet few studies investigate when and how students activate this knowledge in a relatively transparent system. Drawing upon 26 Taiwanese student interviews, this study unveils how students strategically use available information to illuminate each step of the admission process. I…
Descriptors: College Admission, Cultural Awareness, Student Attitudes, Comparative Analysis
Gardner-McTaggart, Alexander – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2018
For the 'global middle classes', cultural reproduction increasingly involves the international school as they promise considerable distinction [Bourdieu, P. 1984. "Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste." Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press] granting University passage past Anglo gate-keepers. This paper draws on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Advanced Placement Programs, International Schools, Educational Policy
Yemini, Miri; Maxwell, Claire – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2018
This article makes an empirical contribution to the study of the global middle class (GMC), and sheds light on the complex relationships that are constructed and sustained by these families with their 'home nation' through their educational strategies. Drawing on an inductive analysis of 20 in-depth interviews with Israeli migrant mothers in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle Class, Family (Sociological Unit), Mothers
Wright, Jan; Cruickshank, Ken; Black, Stephen – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2018
Much of the literature on social class and language study in schools argues that for middle-class parents and their children, languages are chosen for their capacity to offer forms of distinction that provide an edge in the global labour market. In this paper, we draw on data collected from interviews with parents and children in middle-class…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Discourse Analysis, Middle Class, Middle Class Culture
Koh, Aaron; Ziqi, Li – Oxford Review of Education, 2022
The enrolment of Chinese middle-class children in elite international kindergartens is a big education industry in China. Our paper is situated in the broader sociology of elite schooling which has yet to fully explore how middle and upper middle-class parents are increasingly sending their children to elite international kindergartens. We present…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, International Schools, Reputation
Browne, Daniel – Wallace Foundation, 2022
Despite ample research evidence about the benefits of out-of-school-time (OST) programs, recent studies have revealed an increasing gap in access to and engagement in OST between youth from working-class and middle-class backgrounds. There are both immediate and long-term implications of this difference in high-quality program participation, as…
Descriptors: Program Design, After School Programs, Equal Education, Student Attitudes
Wong, Yi-Lee – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
Against an expanded sector of higher education, inadequate empirical effort has been made to examine the experiences of middle-class students who fail to get straight into university rectify their situation. Such experiences, as well as their psychic/emotional aspects, are of increasing relevance to understanding the operation of class against a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Middle Class
Huang, Hua; Lin, Xun – Learning, Media and Technology, 2019
Based on an ethnographic study, this article presents the class-based disparities of Chinese parents' usage of "WeChat," the dominating social networking mobile application in China, in their educational involvement. We find that middle-class parents are the privileged ones who have exploited the use of "WeChat" not only as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Participation, Equal Education, Social Media
A Boost for the Middle Class: An Evaluation of No-Loan Policies and Elite Private College Enrollment
Rosinger, Kelly Ochs; Belasco, Andrew S.; Hearn, James C. – Journal of Higher Education, 2019
In response to goals of expanding access as well as public pressure to leverage substantial endowment resources toward increasing affordability, numerous elite colleges have enacted policies aimed at improving access and affordability by replacing student loans with grants in financial aid packages. No-loan policies, however, differ in the extent…
Descriptors: Middle Class, College Students, Private Colleges, Student Financial Aid
Wheeler, Sharon; Green, Ken; Thurston, Miranda – European Physical Education Review, 2019
This paper reports on the patterns of participation in organised sports of youngsters coming towards the end of primary school, with a view to identifying emergent sporting habits in relation to social class gradients. The data for the study were generated via 90 semi-structured interviews with parents and children from 62 families. The data…
Descriptors: Social Class, Elementary School Students, Parent Attitudes, Team Sports