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Education and social mobility [PDF]
International Tax and Public Finance, 2010 This paper shows that the design of education policy involves a potential conflict between welfare and social mobility. We consider a setting in which social mobility is maximized under the least elitist public education system, whereas welfare maximization calls for the most elitist system.
Cremer, Helmuth +2 more
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Mobile robot programming in education [PDF]
Proceedings 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2006. ICRA 2006., 2006 The Mobile Robot Programming course has been taught at Carnegie Mellon University for the past twelve years. It is a problem-driven class designed for students with little or no experience with robots. In this paper, we first present the current status of the class, and show how it improves the education and training of students in a robotics ...
Jean-François Lalonde +2 more
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Upward, Lateral, or Downward? Multiple Perspectives on Migrants’ Educational Mobilities
Social Inclusion, 2021 Education is a major component of individuals’ social status in terms of self-positioning and economic opportunities. Migrants’ qualifications from abroad are often devalued by employers or state institutions.
Janina Söhn, Milena Prekodravac
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Mobile Technologies in Education
CoRR, 2021 The growth of smartphone users globally is a factor that educational technologists should not ignore. This ever-growing market will eventually lead to ubiquitous learning (u-learning). The development of specific content should be replaced by the design of content in languages that are compatible with scalable technologies and that will reach the hands
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Sociological Science, 2021 In this rejoinder to Kristian Bernt Karlson (KBK), we maintain that there are substantial differences in intergenerational educational mobility between Denmark and the United States.
Stefan B. Andrade, Jens-Peter Thomsen
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Mobile Technologies and Education [PDF]
, 2005 The objective of this study was to explore new and mobile collaboration technologies and to try to find more effective ways for museum visits with mobile technologies. The study was implemented in December 2002 with 20 Finnish high school students. The students were participating in alternative art course.
Heikki Haaparanta, Harri Ketamo
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Cultural Capital, Gender and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Post-Communist Space
Societies, 2021 Post-communist transition in Eastern Europe has affected social stratification and mobility. There is an argument that transition undermined the role of parental cultural capital and increased the importance of parental economic capital in determining ...
Ausra Maslauskaite
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Educational Exchange and New Opportunities — The Perspectives of Polish Erasmus Students in Portugal
Seminare, 2022 The Erasmus Programme was officially introduced in 1987 despite the discontent of some member states which had their own solutions in the field of educational exchange. Instead, the new programme was supposed to achieve certain far- reaching goals which
Rafał Wiśniewski, Izabela Bukalska
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Mobile Learning For Preschool Education
International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM), 2016 Nowadays preschool education is considered crucial for a child’s development. Recent researches support the view that the role of kindergarten in children’s progress is very important, as this age is sensitive for their future academic and social life.
Kokkalia, G., Drigas, A.S., Economou, A.
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EtnoAntropoZum, 2018 Poland has been traditionally a sending migration country. However, in recent years it receiv€es slowly growing number of return migrants. Among returnees arriving from the post-Soviet successor states the dominant group are youngsters who enroll for ...
Marcin Gońda
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