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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
wiley   +1 more source

Why do people choose to enter and exit the teaching profession? An interdisciplinary quantitative synthesis

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Many nations experience recurring shortages of teachers in particular subjects, prompting concerns that pupils' education is suffering as a result. Researchers have responded by generating a sizable literature on the reasons for which people enter and exit the teaching profession.
Sam Sims, Harriet Lowes‐Belk, Clare Routledge   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exchange, Conflict and Coercion: The Ritual Dynamics of the Notting Hill Carnival Past and Present [PDF]

, 2011
This study investigates patterns of social relationships involving the Notting Hill Carnival. Two theoretical approaches are employed elementary relations theory and structural ritualization theory - to explain how the carnival has been strategically ...
Edwards, Jennifer, Knottnerus, J. David
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Teacher‐makers and teacher‐breakers: (Re)defining how status and safety influence trajectories into and away from teaching

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper uses empirical data from a longitudinal qualitative study conducted with aspirant teachers in England to propose (re)definitions of the concepts of ‘status’ and ‘safety’ as a framework with which to understand and improve teacher recruitment.
Emily MacLeod
wiley   +1 more source

The role of beliefs and social–emotional skills in shaping educational expectations among Romanian adolescents

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The study used descriptive and multivariate statistics analytical methods to explore relationships between the highest level of education expected by 15‐year‐old Romanian students and factors associated with student background (personal and academic), school characteristics and selected beliefs and social–emotional skills.
Camelia Truța, Ana‐Maria Cazan, Roxana Elena Stoica, Ecaterina Maria Unianu, Maria Adamuti‐Trache   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Kim jestem? - Pytania o tożsamość w dobie XXI wieku

Horyzonty Wychowania, 2012
Artykuł przedstawia koncepcję tożsamości współczesnego człowieka i jej przemiany pod wpływem różnorodnych mediów. Autorka skupiła się głównie na wpływie Internetu, traktując to medium jako jedno z silniejszych źródeł wpływu na osobowość                   
Beata Uchto
doaj  

Cultural symbols and landowners’ power:the practice of managing Scotland’s natural resource [PDF]

, 2000
This article deals with the claim that Scottish landowners' power is directly related to their status in law, by arguing that it is, in fact, much more to do with their (inter)relationship with particular cultural symbols that can be associated with the ...
Samuel, Andy M. M.
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Can boarding schools help looked after and vulnerable children improve academic attainment?

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The education of children in statutory care, or at the edge of care, is a serious concern for governments and policymakers. How to promote educational opportunities for these children can involve challenging and often contentious proposals. In this paper, we study one proposal put into practice in England: the provision to children who are in ...
David Murphy, Gianni De Fraja, Mike Adkins   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

How do medical students deal with the topic of racism? A qualitative analysis of group discussions in Germany.

PLoS ONE
BackgroundAnti-racism is part of the medical professional ethos. Nevertheless, racism pervades medicine on individual, institutional, and structural levels. The concept of habitus helps to understand deficiencies in enacting anti-racism in practice.
Simon Matteo Gerhards, Mark Schweda
doaj   +1 more source

How inter-firm networks influence the development of agglomerations [PDF]

, 2007
Non-market interactions are increasingly regarded as key explanations for spatial concentration. Consistently, both innovation and local knowledge spillovers play a central role in recent theories of agglomeration.
Boshuizen, Johannes, Veen, Anne van der
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