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What Can We Do to Ensure a Level Playing Field for All Students? PISA in Focus. No. 117
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Ikeda, Miyako – OECD Publishing, 2022
Many education systems aim to provide learning opportunities to all students regardless of their backgrounds in order for them to realise their potential. Education systems are expected to break down barriers to social mobility. However, too often, children are not given enough opportunities to succeed, to pursue their interests, or to develop…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Foreign Countries, Reading Achievement, Social Differences
Using Critical Psychology in Analysis of Career Guidance and Counselling
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Skovhus, Randi Boelskifte; Thomsen, Rie – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2022
In this article we introduce key concepts from critical psychology to explore their potential when operationalised in qualitative, empirically-based analyses of career guidance and counselling. Critical psychology is particularly concerned with understanding the concrete lines of action that can support generalised human agency -- a focus that is…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Career Counseling, Psychology, Personal Autonomy
Pedagogical Transformations of "Religion" into "Culture" in Danish State Mass Schooling from the 1900s to the 1930s
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Buchardt, Mette – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2013
Particularly after the Danish political system changed to parliamentarism in 1901, a growing interest in, and expanded meaning of, culture as a pedagogical category developed in relation to state schooling, on the road to a comprehensive school system for "the whole population". This article elaborates on the role played by theological…
Descriptors: Philosophy, Educational History, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
Widening Our Understanding of Creative Pedagogy: A North-South Dialogue
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Glaveanu, Vlad Petre; Sierra, Zayda; Tanggaard, Lene – Education 3-13, 2015
The present article offers a reflection on creativity and creative pedagogy emerging out of an ongoing dialogue between three authors placed in two very different sociocultural contexts--Denmark and Colombia. Despite obvious geographical, economic, and cultural differences, similar concerns animate our practice when it comes to the question of…
Descriptors: Creative Teaching, Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies, Creativity
When "Muslim-ness" Is Pedagogised. "Religion" and "Culture" as Knowledge and Social Classification in the Classroom
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Buchardt, Mette – British Journal of Religious Education, 2010
The article presents a curriculum-sociological study of "religion" in the classroom. More specifically, it is a study, inspired by Bernstein, Foucault and Bourdieu, that examines various forms of identity politics tied to "religion" and "culture" as these concepts unfold in the classroom in relation to knowledge…
Descriptors: Muslims, Religion, Social Differences, Classification
Cultural Minority Children's Learning within Culturally-Sensitive Classroom Teaching
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Hedegaard, Mariane – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2003
The personal aspect of knowledge--the everyday concepts--is located in the life setting of a person. These personal concepts are the foundation for the child's appropriation of subject matter concepts that qualify the child's personal concept so they can function as theoretical concepts. However, subject matter concepts are not universal, they are…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Social Sciences, Minority Group Children, Social Differences