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Mittal, Oleksandra; Scherer, Ronny; Nilsen, Trude – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2022
The prerequisite for meaningful comparisons of educational inequality indicators across immigration status is the comparability of socioeconomic status (SES) measures. The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) uses its index of economic, social, and cultural status (ESCS) to provide insights into the problems of inequality across…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Students, Immigrants, Indigenous Populations
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Sarah Stopforth; Vernon Gayle – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2025
This study investigates the relationship between parental social class and young people's school examinations in England. This study uses a specialist data resource from the UK Household Longitudinal Study (Understanding Society) and linked administrative data from the Nat­ional Pupil Database. The main aims are to better understand the effects of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Background, Exit Examinations, Elementary School Students
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Magnus Persson – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2024
One consequence of the widened participation in higher education (HE) is that the social demarcation line that once existed at the entrance to HE has moved inside the HE system. This study investigates how students experience social friction when demarcation lines are crossed and how such friction develops over time. This was achieved by repeated…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Experience, Educational Change, Higher Education
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Soojin Park; Xu Qin; Chioun Lee – Sociological Methods & Research, 2024
In the field of disparities research, there has been growing interest in developing a counterfactual-based decomposition analysis to identify underlying mediating mechanisms that help reduce disparities in populations. Despite rapid development in the area, most prior studies have been limited to regression-based methods, undermining the…
Descriptors: Medical Research, Research Methodology, Social Differences, Human Body
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Deepa Ramadurai; Judy A. Shea – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2024
Teaching equitable clinical practice is of critical importance, yet how best to do so remains unknown. Educators utilize implementation science frameworks to disseminate clinical evidence-based practices (EBP). The Health Equity Implementation Framework (HEIF) is one of these frameworks, and it delineates how health equity may be concomitantly…
Descriptors: Social Differences, Medical Education, Health Services, Guidelines
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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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Lavoie, Émilie; Cavanagh, Martine – Literacy, 2023
Future teachers must notice, navigate, and address ideologies in order to counter inequities in the literacy classroom. This article presents the findings of two teacher educators who have taken up the call to critically reflect on their own underlying beliefs and discourses regarding writing instruction. Through an education design framework,…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Social Justice, Teacher Education, Equal Education
OECD Publishing, 2025
The early years set the foundations for children's development and learning trajectories in life. Early inequalities can put children on divergent paths, but Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) policies can level opportunities from the start, with lasting economic and social benefits. Addressing gaps in participation in ECEC and…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Early Childhood Education, Investment, Educational Policy
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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
Raymund Rueda Rosales – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The United States still faces difficulties with its teacher shortage and consistently depends on international educators for assistance. The Philippines played a vital role in providing American educators. Regrettably, this method resulted in unexpected problems. Unfamiliarity with American society hindered Filipino immigrant teachers. As a result…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Filipino Americans, Social Differences, Barriers
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Werse, Nicholas R. – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2023
Although many academic disciplines are now experiencing a process of "greening" as scholars seek to cultivate an ecocritical awareness within disciplinary scholarship, Neil Selwyn notes that such ecocritical concerns rarely feature in the field of educational technology. In this paper, I bring Selwyn's call for ecocritical awareness in…
Descriptors: Ecology, Environmental Education, Educational Technology, Sustainability
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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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Meera Chandran; Shamin Padalkar; Ramachan A. Shimray – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2025
This article explores the question, 'what motivates the choice of teaching as a profession?' Availability of adequate teachers, professionally qualified in institutions of higher education to meet the curricular and structural challenges of school education, is a critical policy concern. This article is based on a study of 54 student-teachers…
Descriptors: Teacher Motivation, Preservice Teachers, Career Choice, Gender Differences
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Liu Tianbao; Pan Zhenbo – Education and Urban Society, 2025
Based on the survey data of shadow education activities of junior middle school students in Dalian, China in 2020, this paper analyzes the socio-spatial differentiation of participation, activity spatial distribution and travel distance. It's found that: (1) The participation rate reaches 74.17%. In general, the higher socioeconomic status strata…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Private Education, Foreign Countries, Urban Areas
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