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Arar, Khalid – Journal of Educational Change, 2014
Although the school constitutes a key cultural arena for the production and reproduction of gender identities, few studies have addressed gender discourse in educational institutions in developing societies. Such studies are especially sparse in Arab society in Israel. This study goes some way to addressing what is often absent from many…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Arabs, Muslims, High Schools
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Salter-Dvorak, Hania – London Review of Education, 2017
This paper discusses feedback for developing L2 writing. It presents data from a serendipitous audio-recording of one L2 master's student's tutorial with her dissertation supervisor at a UK university, which is extracted from a 13-month linguistic ethnography. Following "academic literacies" scholars, I view the tutorial as a…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Second Language Learning, Recall (Psychology), Self Concept
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Yeadon-Lee, Annie – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2013
This paper presents the proposition that a variety of differing hierarchies exist in an action learning set at any one time, and each hierarchy has the potential to affect an individual's behaviour within the set. An interpretivist philosophy underpins the research framework adopted in this paper. Data were captured by means of 11 in-depth…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Educational Research, Grounded Theory, Interviews
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Derycke, Marc – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2010
The passion of inequality exists in the discourse that binds people by their adhesion to the beliefs about the hierarchic distribution of positions in society. In this manner the differences that structure the (apparently) natural titles to be governed or to govern are put in a state of aggregation. The apparent naturalness of these titles masks a…
Descriptors: Social Structure, Apprenticeships, Educational Philosophy, Freedom
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Rauch, Herbert – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to encourage a discourse aiming to better understand the "psycho-social situation" of many people--from a global perspective. The following "first hypotheses" are formulated; pointing to crucial "hidden agendas" which shall be "named" in order to focus attention towards…
Descriptors: Global Education, Global Approach, Hypothesis Testing, Access to Information
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Chadderton, Charlotte – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2014
This article considers the implications of the Troops to Teaching (TtT) programme, to be introduced in England in autumn 2013, for Initial Teacher Education (ITE) and race equality. TtT will fast-track ex-armed service members to teach in schools, without necessarily the requirement of a university degree. Employing theories of white supremacy,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Alternative Teacher Certification, Military Personnel, Preservice Teacher Education
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Winans-Solis, Jaime – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2014
This qualitative case study investigates how service-learning may enable self-direction and the development of a critical consciousness for marginalized high school students by exploring the dynamics of service-learning through a theoretical framework of critical theory. Service-learning is theorized to counter the oppressive nature of schooling…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Service Learning, Disadvantaged, Teaching Methods
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Gavrikov, A. L. – Russian Education and Society, 2012
This article emphasizes the regional development in today's Russia and focuses on the current state of the system of higher education. The concept of elite professional education is used as a means of social mobility and an instrument for the formation of the social structure of a particular region. What prompted this approach was an analysis of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Professional Education, Middle Class, Foreign Countries
Baker, Jamie S. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This qualitative case study explores the experiences and perspectives of seven diverse adolescent youth who are gifted as they navigate the social and organizational structures of public schooling as participants in gifted programming. Recent trends in education and the historical exploitations of giftedness that service the few, rather than the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Academically Gifted, Public Schools, Qualitative Research
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Cameron, Abigail E.; Cabaniss, Emily R.; Teixeira-Poit, Stephanie M. – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2012
The "underclass" concept pervades social science research on poverty, racial relations, and more recently, immigration. In this article, we elaborate and extend Massey's critique of the underclass concept by briefly reviewing the history of this concept and emphasizing its contemporary application to immigrants and undocumented workers. We also…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Disadvantaged, Public Policy, Racial Relations
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Nolen, Susan Bobbitt – Theory Into Practice, 2011
Formative assessment has been widely promoted as a means to support student learning and motivation. This practice has potential for communicating to students the value of what they are learning, both in the classroom and beyond (Brophy, 2008). To make good on those promises, however, requires an understanding of the connections between formative…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Formative Evaluation, Motivation, Social Structure
Williams Sy, Jobila Y. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Positive educational experiences deliberately sought through advising can lead to increased academic success, improved college experiences, and long-term benefits as graduates become contributing citizens in society. However, much of the research on the role of and advantages related to academic advising has been limited to American colleges and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Foreign Countries, Academic Advising, Interviews
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Bal, Ellen; Grassiani, Erella; Kirk, Kate – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2014
This article is based on our own experiences and that of several of our colleagues teaching social and cultural anthropology in different Dutch institutions for higher learning. We focus in particular on teaching and learning in two small liberal arts and science (LAS) colleges, where anthropology makes up part of the social science curriculum…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Anthropology, Foreign Countries, Core Curriculum
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Sheregi, F. E. – Russian Education and Society, 2014
Studies of the political attitudes and actions of students in the higher education institutions in Russia suggest that they are closely linked to the country's professional and social structure. It is the lack of opportunity for suitable employment and for meeting their expectations for a better future that helps shape attitudes and may lead to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Political Attitudes
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Krieger, Aliza Y. – Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 2010
This article explores the religious and social underpinnings of family as a central social structure to Jewish life. Torah and Talmudic sources, conceptual papers, and empirical research that address the relevance of family to Judaism are examined. Suggestions for working with Jewish families in a therapeutic setting are provided.
Descriptors: Jews, Judaism, Social Structure, Family Relationship
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