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Shedd, Carla – Russell Sage Foundation, 2015
Chicago has long struggled with racial residential segregation, high rates of poverty, and deepening class stratification, and it can be a challenging place for adolescents to grow up. "Unequal City" examines the ways in which Chicago's most vulnerable residents navigate their neighborhoods, life opportunities, and encounters with the…
Descriptors: Racial Segregation, Low Income, African American Students, Transportation
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Gottesman, Isaac – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2010
Although it is commonly assumed that Paulo Freire was widely influential in the field of education in the United States immediately upon publication of his classic work, "Pedagogy of the Oppressed", in 1970, the historical evidence indicates otherwise. In fact, Freire's work only began to gain wide reception in the field in the mid- and late…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Social Structure, Social Change, Educational History
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Hanauer, David I. – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2010
This study provides insights into what constitutes a laboratory identity and the ways in which it is spatially constructed. This article explores students' professional identities as microbiologists as manifest in their usage of representational space in a laboratory and as such extends understandings of science identity and spatial identity. The…
Descriptors: Microbiology, Science Laboratories, Space Utilization, Personal Space
Waldecker, Gary T. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study explored how social structure and cultural values dynamically interact in collective learning between two religious organizations cooperating in a joint project. It further explored the enablers of and impediments to collective learning in this context. The study employed the theoretical framework provided by the Organizational Learning…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Participant Observation, Social Structure, Interaction
Lutter, Stacy Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the perceptions of female registered nurses who have intentions to leave the profession with particular attention to the influence of gender. The theoretical framework of feminist poststructuralism informed this study, which emphasizes the role of discourse and power relations in the…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Feminism, Interpersonal Communication, Job Satisfaction
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Oliveira, Alandeom W.; Cook, Kristin; Buck, Gayle A. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2011
This study examines how a first-year biology teacher facilitates a series of whole-class discussions about evolution during the implementation of a problem-based unit. A communicative theoretical perspective is adopted wherein evolution discussions are viewed as social events that the teacher can frame intellectually (i.e., present or organize as…
Descriptors: Evolution, Social Structure, Biology, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
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Getty, Kimberly C.; Erchul, William P. – Psychology in the Schools, 2009
The social power typology developed originally by French and Raven in 1959 and revised by Raven in 1965 and 1992 was applied to study school consultation. Specifically, we investigated how the gender of school psychologist consultants and teacher consultees influence how likely consultants are to use soft power strategies, identified as those…
Descriptors: Consultants, School Psychologists, Gender Differences, Power Structure
Garzarelli, Louis – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The reduction of recidivism is an ongoing problem in the U.S. correctional system. There is preliminary evidence that supports the use of parenting programs to reduce recidivism, yet further validation is needed. The purpose of this study was two fold. The first phase of this sequential, explanatory, mixed methods research was to determine the…
Descriptors: Recidivism, Intervention, Parent Education, Child Rearing
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Bukin, V. P. – Russian Education and Society, 2011
A survey conducted in two provincial areas of Russia provides the basis for an examination of the relation between the self-identification and the social status affiliation of young people. Self-assessments serve as the basis for a model of the social structure and a typology of the younger generation in these regions, in accordance with their…
Descriptors: Social Status, Identification (Psychology), Social Structure, Foreign Countries
Riddell, Richard, Ed. – Trentham Books Ltd, 2010
This book presents the evidence gathered from original interviews to show how the aspirations of young people develop in light of their social circumstances. Those who attend independent schools will find that the relationship between what goes on at home and at school makes it socially almost impossible not to have achievable aspirations for a…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Aspiration, Working Class, Social Status
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Moran, Seana; Bundick, Matthew J.; Malin, Heather; Reilly, Timothy S. – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2013
Prior studies have found that youth reporting a general sense that "I have a purpose" also describe having social supports that enhance thriving. This study links "specific" social supports to "specific" purposes described by youth. We examined whether developmental level, social-structural supports of gender and…
Descriptors: Family (Sociological Unit), Friendship, Social Support Groups, Youth
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Warmington, Paul – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2009
Academics and activists concerned with race and racism have rightly coalesced around the sociological project to refute biologistic conceptions of race. By and large, our default position as teachers, writers and researchers is that race is a social construct. However, the deconstruction of race and its claims to theoretical intelligibility has…
Descriptors: Race, Social Behavior, Social Structure, Social Problems
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Dkeidek, Iyad; Mamlok-Naaman, Rachel; Hofstein, Avi – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2011
In order to cope with complex issues in the science-technology-environment-society context, one must develop students' high-order learning skills, such as question-asking ability (QAA), critical thinking, evaluative thinking, decision-making, and problem-solving capabilities within science education. In this study, we are concerned with evaluating…
Descriptors: Jews, Social Structure, Chemistry, Science Laboratories
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Shanahan, Marie-Claire; Nieswandt, Martina – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2011
Sociocultural studies of science education have consistently recognized the dialectic nature of students' agency to create and author positions for themselves and the structural constraints that may influence them. This mixed-methods study explores one particular aspect of these potential constraints: the possibility of a social structure specific…
Descriptors: Evidence, Student Behavior, Student Attitudes, Student Role
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Sigauke, Aaron T. – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2011
Educational discourse, like other fields, is not neutral. Through policy documents it has ideological functions of transmitting dominant cultures and serving certain sectional interest groups. In Zimbabwe 1998 was characterized by radical political discontent as witnessed by a rise in student activism and the formation of the main political…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Discourse Analysis, Young Adults
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