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Managing the Tensions of Essentialism: Purity and Impurity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This article proposes a new interpretation of Pierre Bourdieu, as a theorist of purity and impurity. Bourdieu’s writings indicate that through the adjudication of things or people as relatively impure or pure an image is constructed of their essential ...
Duschinsky, Robbie, Lampitt, Sue
core   +1 more source

To protect and preserve? Explaining the gap between structural and superficial racial equality regimes in North Atlantic Rim universities

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how UK and US universities manage racial equality regimes through governance structures that prioritise institutional reputation over substantive racial justice reform. Drawing on Bourdieu's field, habitus and capital theory, the study demonstrates how universities neutralise racial justice efforts through bureaucratic ...
David Roberts
wiley   +1 more source

Emotional experiences and stigma among families benefiting from Barcelona's shock plan against school segregation and for inclusion and equal opportunities and educational success

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the emotional experiences and processes of stigmatisation encountered by families benefiting from the Shock Plan Against Segregation and for Inclusion, Equal Opportunities and Educational Success (SP), implemented in Barcelona.
Andrea Jover   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Empirical Analysis of the Relationship between Poverty and Religion in Iran: A Comparative Study within the Country [PDF]

open access: yesجامعه شناسی کاربردی
Introduction The relationship between religion and poverty has long captivated sociological researchers; yet the answers offered remain inconclusive and resist simple generalizations.
Mohammadreza Taleban
doaj   +1 more source

Is there space for dyslexia in high‐attainment educational environments? Evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study into attainment grouping in English primary schools

open access: yesBritish 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
wiley   +1 more source

Domiciliary Care: The Formal and Informal Labour Process [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Domiciliary carers are paid care workers who travel to the homes of older people to assist with personal routines. Increasingly, over the past 20 years, the delivery of domiciliary care has been organised according to market principles and portrayed as ...
Bolton, Sharon. C, Wibberley, Gemma
core   +1 more source

Civilising pedagogies: An ethnography of instructional and regulative discourses in government schools in Delhi, India

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Over the years, surveys and data on learning outcomes have consistently shown inadequate levels of learning in schools in India, witnessing a further decline in recent years. Studies within the sociology of education have consistently highlighted the overarching role of class and caste on learning outcomes in schools. Neoliberal policy reforms
Akshita Rawat
wiley   +1 more source

KAJIAN TENTANG INTERAKSIONISME SIMBOLIK

open access: yesPerspektif: Jurnal Ilmu-ilmu Sosial, 2016
The basic idea of symbolic interaction theory states that the emblem or symbol of culture are learned through interaction, people give meaning to everything that will control their attitudes and behavior.
Nina Siti Salmaniah Siregar
doaj   +1 more source

The discomforting rise of ' public geographies': a 'public' conversation. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
In this innovative and provocative intervention, the authors explore the burgeoning ‘public turn’ visible across the social sciences to espouse the need to radically challenge and reshape dominant and orthodox visions of ‘the academy’, academic life, and
Bassett K   +20 more
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School readiness and the good level of development: Policy constructions in English early childhood education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper critically analysed how school readiness has been historically and discursively constructed in Early Childhood Education (ECE) policy in England over the past four decades. Using Bacchi's ‘What's the Problem Represented to be?’ framework and Foucauldian concepts of governmentality, the paper explored how school readiness has shifted
Louise Kay
wiley   +1 more source

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