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‘Where are the adults?’: Troubling child‐activism and children's political participation
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Children's political participation is a well‐established theme in childhood studies. In this article we offer an original account of child activism that takes into account the entangled and emergent aspect of children as activists. We begin with a historical and a conceptual review, noting the importance of mid‐20th century developments such ...
Sharon Hunter, Claire Cassidy
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LeRoi Jones to Amiri Baraka: A Philosophical Journey of a Black Author
American and British Studies Annual, 2014 This text examines three early writings by LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, a radical Black intellectual whose stance toward the role of African Americans within American society underwent a significant change in the early 1960s.
Jiří Stárek
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A typology of schools across the four nations of the United Kingdom: Class, race and geography
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract In this paper we analyse the hierarchical field of schools across the United Kingdom during the transition to university and suggest that there are five socially distinct clusters of schools. Our five‐cluster typology of UK schools is composed of an established group of elite private and state schools, schools for the white rural and suburban ...
Sol Gamsu, Håkan Forsberg
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract School segregation is an international problem undermining the performance and equity of education systems. Australia's secondary schooling system offers international insights into the causes of segregation owing to it being one of the most segregated in the Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development, its long history of school ...
Michael G. Sciffer +2 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research evidence is mixed on the consequences of ability grouping policies, but most research has found an overrepresentation of disadvantaged social demographics in low‐ability groups. However, researchers have neglected to explain why ability grouping policies vary between countries.
Monica Reichenberg +2 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Recent years have seen a growing scholarly interest in youth activism (YA), a phenomenon often viewed as a positive development in response to declining civic and political engagement among young people. However, most of the research focuses on the activists themselves and gives less attention to how YA is perceived by the broader youth ...
Martyna Elerian +2 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Attainment grouping is an important policy issue and is increasingly practiced in UK primary schools, with researchers presenting contrasting stances on the impact to pupils' attainment and academic self‐concept. This original research statistically analyses the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) data (N = 3510) and explores: (i) whether dyslexic ...
Esther Alice Outram
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Justice‐centred climate change education and territory
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract In a globalised world, education faces challenges that go far beyond professional training, where social responsibility and the inclusion of heterogeneous communities and territories in all levels of education have become a greater focus of the university and of scientific research, setting the stage for more inclusive public policies. Greater
Lennin Florez‐Leiva +3 more
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"Technology Adoption, Learning by Doing, and Productivity: A Study of Steel Refining Furnaces" [PDF]
Models of vintage-capital learning by doing predict an initial fall in productivity after the introduction of new technology. This paper examines the impact of new technology on plant-level productivity in the Japanese steel industry in the 1950s and ...
Hiroshi Ohashi, Tsuyoshi Nakamura
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Despite a growing international consensus that students need to be provided with the type of education that effectively prepares them to engage in and contribute to their globalised world, and that teachers need to be appropriately trained to facilitate this teaching and learning, ‘global education’ continues to be hindered by a lack of ...
Sarah‐Louise Jones +2 more
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