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The situated professional: Preservice teachers' profiling of globally competent teachers and visions of their ‘possible professional self’

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In response to globalisation, teacher education programmes worldwide are tasked with preparing globally competent teachers (GCTs). Prevailing conceptions of global competence are largely derived from Western‐centric humanistic, neoliberal and transformative narratives, creating a complex landscape for teacher identity formation.
Ji Ying
wiley   +1 more source

Knowing education in Thailand like a global expert organisation: Politics, context and data

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Global expert organisations play increasingly significant roles in the way that education is understood and governed internationally, including by influencing the discourses through which education is conceptualised and shaping norms of what counts as success, failure, progress and the most desirable visions for the future.
Steve Puttick, Chris Atkin, Wayne Dyble, Nick Gee, Ami Montgomery, Chawin Pongpajon, Waewalee Waewchimplee   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Life satisfaction and income inequality [PDF]

Do people care about income inequality and does income inequality affect subjective well-being? Welfare theories can predict either a positive or a negative impact of income inequality on subjective well-being and empirical research has found evidence on
Verme, Paolo
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Otherwise engaged? Learning from non‐participation in research with care‐experienced students

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores what can be learned when educational research “fails.” Drawing on a Welland Trust–funded project in the North East of England that aimed to support care‐experienced students transitioning from further to higher education, we reflect on why, despite sustained effort, there was a lack of engagement.
Lynette Harland Shotton, Tom Disney, Andrea Carrick, Laura Thurman   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Female Labour supply and Income Inequality in Ireland [PDF]

Over the last 10-15 years female labour force participation rates have increased substantially in Ireland. At the same time there has been a large increase in wage inequality but a decline in total household income inequality.
Olive Sweetman, Tim Callan, Brian Nolan, Donal O'Neill   +3 more
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The long reach of childhood income inequality: a multinational twin study of gene-environment interplay on adult depressive symptoms. [PDF]

Psychol Med
Petkus AJ, Reynolds CA, Finch BK, Thomas K, Beam CR, Catts VS, Ericsson M, Finkel DG, Franz CE, Kremen WS, Larsen LA, Martin NG, McGue M, Mosing MA, Neiderhiser JM, Nygaard M, Pedersen NL, Thalamuthu A, Whitfield KE, Gatz M, IGEMS Consortium.   +20 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Children's food activism: Reflections on knowledge and responsibility

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Children as activists have become more prominent in recent years. Their activism is manifest in relation to conspicuously political topics such as Black Lives Matter, voting rights, being able to air their views or protesting against injustices related to race, culture and other identities. Less often, if at all, do children engage politically
Sharon Hunter, Claire Cassidy, Laura Colucci‐Gray, Donald Gray, Kirsten Darling‐McQuistan, Stephen Day, Kirsten Leask, Bob Donald   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Income-related health inequality in Portugal [PDF]

The Portuguese health care system is based on principles of equity and efficiency. Despite that, it appears that equality has not been fully realized owing to differences in access [Dixon and Massialos (2000)] or self-assessed health [Van Doorslaer and ...
Paula Veiga
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The Conditional Effect of Income Inequality on Obesity: A Cross-National Comparative Analysis. [PDF]

Inquiry
Hu Q, Zhong W, Hu R.
europepmc   +1 more source

Powerful transformations: The experiences of higher education teaching staff who were first‐generation university students

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Historically, a university education has been seen primarily as a route for the middle classes to achieve professional qualifications while structural barriers have served to restrict entry to individuals from particular demographics. First‐generation students (FGS), often with low socio‐economic backgrounds, face multiple barriers to Higher ...
Helen Williams, Ellen‐Alyssa Gambles
wiley   +1 more source