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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research evidence is mixed on the consequences of ability grouping policies, but most research has found an overrepresentation of disadvantaged social demographics in low‐ability groups. However, researchers have neglected to explain why ability grouping policies vary between countries.
Monica Reichenberg +2 more
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Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2008 This transdisciplinary anthology was published on the occasion of the 65th birthday of Emil WALTER-BUSCH, an organization scientist from St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Jo Reichertz, Sylvia Marlene Wilz
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Religion and Science: The Embodiment of the Conversation: A Postmodern Sociological Perspective
Zygon, 2001 In this paper I present a model of analysis of religion and science as forms of social construction of knowledge from the perspective of postmodern sociology.
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Book review: activating human rights and peace [PDF]
, 2012 Activating Human Rights and Peace is an enlightening collection of well thought through cases aimed at academics and students of human rights, political science, law and justice, peace and conflict studies and sociology.
Perrin, Kristen
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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 +2 more
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Absolute monarchy in France [PDF]
, 2012 An original scholarly interpretation of the nature of the French monarchy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It argues that rather than seeing this monarchy as centralised and administrative, we should see it as a state formation replete with ...
Campbell, Peter R
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Fear of failure is damaging in a host of ways yet is rife in many schools. Drawing on self‐worth theory, we explore whether fear of academic failure is higher in education systems with features that increase students' experiences of competition. To do this, we compare two very different education systems: England, where, for instance, national
Carolyn Jackson, Mieke Van Houtte
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Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2008 The 14 articles in this collection present theories, questions and research areas in German sociology of knowledge. The contributions analyze the construction of reality with regard to knowledge.
Torsten Junge
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Sociological self images : paradigms and pluralisms in sociological theory, 1960s-1990s : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy in Sociology at Massey University [PDF]
, 1996 This thesis explores the identity and self-understanding of sociology as expressed chiefly in discourses of sociological theory. It takes as its starting point the 'identity crisis' of sociology that began in the 1960s with the demise of structural ...
Kemp, Stephen Timothy
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract The latest reform of initial teacher education (ITE) in France, introduced in 2021, aims to make teacher training less theoretical and therefore more ‘practical’. New elements, such as the replacement of the Écoles Supérieures pour le Professorat et l'Éducation (ÉSPÉs) by the Instituts Nationaux Supérieurs du Professorat et de l'Education ...
Eric Maleyrot, Thérèse Perez‐Roux
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