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Migrant success in UK Education: Are there lessons for government social mobility policy?
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract The school achievement and career aspirations of 23 sixth form students at a multi‐cultural urban academy in the UK are explored through interviews. The sample includes 16 s‐generation migrants, 6 UK‐born students with migrant parents and 1 UK‐born student, selected to represent a cohort of over 300 post‐16 learners.
Bernard Barker, Kate Hoskins
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Sociological EducationThe socio-economic resilience of students in 3T regions such as Tolitoli Regency still faces significant challenges, particularly in utilizing technology as a learning tool.
Ikbal +3 more
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Changing conceptions of students' career development needs [PDF]
, 2014 — This paper takes as its starting point a brief review of a range of theoretical assumptions about the nature of career learning and decision-making and plots the emergence of the notion of ‘employability’ as a predominant paradigm for the organisation ...
Artess, Jane
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines the under‐theorized political role and identity of Chinese international students, who emerge as significant actors caught between U.S. soft power ambitions and rising geopolitical suspicion. Amid escalating U.S.‐China tensions, these students are forced to confront environments shaped by competing geopolitical discourses ...
Jing Yu
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The philanthropy scale: a sociological perspective in measuring new forms of pro social behaviour [PDF]
, 2010 Philanthropy re-appears on the public stage. It has become part again of daily life in most industrialized countries. Growing wealth, uneven distributed, evokes the philanthropic response. The media attention for donors as Gates and Buffet may proof this.
Bekkers, R.H.F.P., +2 more
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Falling pupil numbers and school closures: Setting a research agenda for a new era of precarity
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the significant phenomenon of decreasing pupil numbers in England due to lower birth rates and the impact of a school closure on a school community. It then discusses how the sociology of education might research this major issue.
Eleanor Fagan, Alice Bradbury
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GENDER BASED VIOLENCE IN KWARA STATE, NIGERIA: A QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS
Sociological EducationThis study investigates the causes, consequences, and preventive measures of gender-based violence (GBV) in Kwara State, guided by three research objectives addressed through a qualitative approach.
Olushola Idris-Iyekolo +1 more
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All Talk and No Action? Racial Differences in College Behaviors and Attendance [PDF]
, 2018 According to the influential “oppositional culture” account, we should expect black students as a group to be less likely to engage in school than their white counterparts because they are more likely to believe and act in opposition to academics.
Blake, Mary Kate
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Racial inequalities are pervasive in higher education despite concerted efforts to redress issues of access, progression and continuation. Little attention has been paid to how universities themselves construct race within their policy texts.
Benjamin Hart, Mirna Šumatić
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PRESTIGE IN THE BUGIS COMMUNITY: WHY CAN'T GOLD JEWELLERY IN BUGIS WOMEN SHIFT SOCIAL STATUS?
Sociological EducationThe Bugis people have a social stratification system that is inherited from generation to generation, where a person's social status is determined more by genealogical factors compared to the accumulation of material wealth.
Fawziah Zahrawati B +2 more
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