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Melanie Beckett – Palgrave Macmillan, 2024
This book presents the life stories and lived experiences of 12 individuals who transitioned from the sixth form of a further education college in a traditionally working-class area of the UK, to higher education. The author employs narrative inquiry in order to explore the participants' unique perspectives. Theoretically, Bourdieu's concepts of…
Descriptors: Student Promotion, Adult Education, Universities, Foreign Countries
Olena Fimyar; Aray Saniyazova; Olga Mun – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2016
Collaborative research aimed at building local capacity is a complex, contested, time-consuming, and at the same time immensely rewarding experience. The clash of different research cultures, managerial approaches, and values involved in conducting and delivering research is inevitable. Collaborative research requires support structures on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Educational Research, Student Promotion
Eisemon, Thomas Owen – 1997
This booklet discusses strategies for reducing repetition of grades by students at primary, secondary, and higher education levels. Large numbers of pupils repeat their grades every year, and these repetition rates are considered good indicators of an educational system's effectiveness. A high repetition rate indicates that a large number of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Grade Repetition, Higher Education