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Wallack, Lawrence – Health Education & Behavior, 2019
Public health is the place where science, policy, politics, and activism converge. Each public health issue is a snapshot where we can see the unfolding of the collective processes that define who we are, what we believe, and what we value as a society. Our professional strength is our commitment to community and social justice values, but we are…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Public Health, Social Differences, Prediction
Kopycka, Katarzyna – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2021
This paper analyzes the development of social inequality in the Polish higher education system during its expansion after 1990 using data from the Polish General Social Survey. Focusing on the special case of a former socialist society, where higher education expansion has been very rapid and achieved mainly through marketization, this paper…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Development, Educational Change, Educational Attainment
Uyanik Aktulun, Özgün; Keser, Merve – International Journal on Social and Education Sciences, 2021
The aims of this study are investigating the attention ability and geometry skills of 60-72-month-old children according to the socio-economic status and determining whether the attention ability significantly predicts the geometry skill when the socio-economic status is controlled. The accessible population of the research in the relational…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Geometry, Mathematics Tests, Attention Control
Knutsson, Beniamin – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2021
Prizes and awards have received limited attention in scholarly research. The present paper engages with the prestigious "UNESCO-Japan Prize on Education for Sustainable Development," which annually honours three outstanding projects related to education for sustainable development (ESD). Drawing on biopolitical theory, the paper explores…
Descriptors: Awards, International Organizations, Sustainable Development, Global Approach
Speirs, Neil M. – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2021
This paper draws on both a theoretical understanding and a semi-autoethnographic approach of the lived experience of working class adult learners in higher education during the COVID-19 global pandemic. In particular, the paper warns of the doxic notion of current working class struggles being singularly attributed to COVID-19. Rather it is vital…
Descriptors: Working Class, Adult Students, Adult Learning, Higher Education
R'boul, Hamza – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2021
Western-centric perceptions of knowledge, behaviors and communication are more dominant and often obscure underrepresented non-western communities. This renders the mission of intercultural communication education (ICE) necessarily encompassing the reconsideration of these hierarchies and differentialisms. This article argues that by…
Descriptors: Western Civilization, Intercultural Communication, Non Western Civilization, Social Differences
Wai, Jonathan; Worrell, Frank C. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2021
Finding and developing talented youth from low-income backgrounds is an ongoing challenge for U.S. gifted education policy. These students face strong headwinds, whereas advantaged students enjoy favorable tailwinds, and these factors accumulate throughout K-12, higher education, and beyond. Jonathan Wai and Frank C. Worrell explain how talented…
Descriptors: Gifted, Low Income Groups, Talent, Educational Policy
Charles, Claire; Black, Rosalyn; Keddie, Amanda – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2021
Higher Education policy researchers have highlighted the link between merit and privileged social background with respect to who is most likely to win merit-based scholarships in Universities. Yet little is known about how students from various social backgrounds may inhabit such a scholarship. In this paper, we draw on theorisations of the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Policy, Undergraduate Students, Scholarships
Alsulami, Naif Daifullah – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2021
This research aims to describe the challenges of Saudis' re-entry experiences returning to Saudi Arabia after studying abroad. The total number of participants in the research was 21, consisting of 13 male and eight female participants returning from studying in the U.S., U.K., and Australia. With semi-structured individual interviews, the overall…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Barriers, Study Abroad, Cultural Differences
Howell, Emily Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship of the Leader in Me philosophy to students' equitable achievement in school, by measuring the academic achievement of third through fifth graders in suburban Missouri public schools. A secondary purpose of the study was to inform teachers and school leaders of effective strategies for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Equal Education, Program Effectiveness, Leadership
Elise N. Leahy – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This quantitative, correlational dissertation research examined if, and to what extent, student early academic success, student socioeconomic status, and student classification as a member of an underrepresented minority predicted student completion at a southeastern Washington two-year institution. The theory of behavioral economics, the iPASS…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Two Year Colleges, College Students, Academic Achievement
Joyce, Kelly; Staples, Margaret; Beauchamp, Alison; Jessup, Rebecca; Buchbinder, Rachelle – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2020
Purpose: This study aimed to explore the health literacy profile of individuals attending a metropolitan community rehabilitation center in Victoria, Australia. Methods: 295 consecutive attendees of a community rehabilitation program between January and August 2015 were invited to complete the Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ), a 44-item…
Descriptors: Health, Knowledge Level, Profiles, Rehabilitation Programs
Kalyoncu, Raif – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2020
The aim of this research is to examine the social skills of visual arts teacher candidates according to their personality traits in terms of different variables. In the research, relational screening method was used in the descriptive survey model, which is a sub-pattern of quantitative research methods. The study group consists of 193 students…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Student Evaluation, Visual Arts, Preservice Teachers
Miele, Jennifer; Nguyen, Vinh Huy – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2020
Attending a secondary education institution represents a substantial change in the social, learning and financial environments for most young adults, but for first-generation college students, the experience is even more complex. This study takes a unique approach to the investigation of first-generation college students by looking at the…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Cultural Awareness, Academic Achievement, Social Bias
Hoolihan, Erin C.; Thomas, Kendra J. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2020
The current study investigated the relationships between bonding social capital, perceptions of justice, and well-being (i.e. the level of depressive symptoms endorsed) in middle and high school students. Previous research has found personal belief in a just world (BJW) and bonding social capital to be associated with positive student well-being…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Beliefs, Justice, Well Being