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Thomsen, Jens-Peter – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2022
While many papers have focused on socially unequal admissions in higher education, this paper looks at the persistence of class differentials after enrolment. I examine the social class gap in bachelor's programme dropout and in the transition from bachelor's to master's in Denmark from the formal introduction of the bachelor's degree in 1993 up…
Descriptors: Social Differences, Dropout Rate, College Admission, Social Class
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Martin Brygger Andersen – SAGE Open, 2024
This study examined the variable relationships among four factors and school liking, controlling for gender, grade level, and maternal educational level. Repeated cross-sectional survey data from Danish public schools were analyzed across three measurement points (2015, 2017, and 2019) using multigroup structural equation modeling. Responses of…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Social Differences, Academic Achievement, Gender Differences
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Li, Jin Hui – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2021
In recent years, the Danish education context has seen an increased concern about underperforming students with migratory histories (particularly students perceived as non-Western descendants) in the political and pedagogical discourses. There seem to be some historical tensions between the societal expectation of class mobility through education…
Descriptors: Foreign Workers, Educational Experience, Social Differences, Racial Bias
Biseth, Heidi, Ed.; Hoskins, Bryony, Ed.; Huang, Lihong, Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2021
This open access book presents an in-depth analysis of data from ICCS. An international group of scholars critically address the state of civic and citizenship education in the four Nordic countries that participated in the IEA International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS) in 2009 and 2016. The findings are of particular relevance to…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Democracy, Teaching Methods
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Jensen, Bente; Brandi, Ulrik – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2018
Research has shown the potential for early childhood education and care (ECEC) in making a difference for all children. However, research also highlights how hard overcoming the "gaps" between children from differing social backgrounds still is. The overall aim of this article is to examine the impact of a professional development…
Descriptors: Social Differences, Faculty Development, Early Childhood Education, Program Descriptions
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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
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Wagner, Judith T.; Camparo, Lorinda B.; Tsenkova, Vera; Camparo, James C. – International Journal of Educational Research, 2008
Denmark's commitment to childhood characterized by equality, democracy, and social cooperation stands in stark contrast to public discourse about immigrant children, who are sometimes branded with negative stereotypes and cast as the cause of school problems. This study examined ethnic-group membership, ethnicity salience, and peer preferences of…
Descriptors: Group Membership, Ethnicity, Social Status, Stereotypes