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Race, Capital, and Equity in Higher Education : Challenging Differential Acad…
This open access book examines the structural and cultural factors that explain the persistence of an attainment gap between white and Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) students in UK universities. So-called ‘deficit’ approaches have long represented the orthodoxy in higher education strategy-making, yet they overlook the structural and institutional factors that reproduce attainment…
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- 9783031516177
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- XXXVI, 279 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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International Comparisons in Learning and Education : Eliasian Perspectives
This Open Access edited volume addresses the important role of education in society through the lens of theoretical concepts developed by Norbert Elias. This book sets out to challenge dominant perspectives within the sociology of education by reorientating traditional debates about socialisation, childhood, early years education, care, schooling and the curriculum, focusing on the relational l…
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- 9783031609589
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- XXIV, 275 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Finland’s Famous Education System
This open access book provides academic insights and serves as a platform for research-informed discussion about education in Finland. Bringing together the work of more than 50 authors across 28 chapters, it presents a major collection of critical views of the Finnish education system and topics that cohere around social justice concerns. It questions rhetoric, myths, and commonly held assumpt…
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- 978-981-19-8241-5
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- XVIII, 466
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Migration, Education and Employment
This is an open access book which focuses on different aspects of education, employment, and successful integration of migrants in three countries: Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland. The chapters in this book reflect on these issues from micro, meso and macro perspectives; some are based on interviews with migrants and people who work with them, others on documents and literature about migration.…
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- 978-3-031-41919-5
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- Education, Equity, Economy
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- VIII, 203
Ausbildungsqualitäten – andersartig, aber gleichwertig?
Am Beispiel zweier konkurrierender allgemein- und berufsbildender Gesundheitsausbildungen - die Fachmittelschule mit Berufsfeld Gesundheit und die berufliche Erstausbildung Fachfrau/-mann Gesundheit - zeigt diese Open Access Studie, wie Qualität von Bildung sozial konstruiert wird. Die Ergebnisse veranschaulichen die Andersartigkeit der Lehr- und Wissenskulturen und tragen damit zur Erklärung…
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- 978-3-658-36353-6
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- Soziologie der Konventionen
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- XXIV, 347
Koordination und Kompromiss in föderalen Bildungssystemen
In vielen Ländern bereitet traditionell das Gymnasium auf die Lehramtsausbildung vor. Diese multimethodische Open Access Studie befasst sich mit der umkämpften Institutionalisierung eines zweiten, alternativen Zugangswegs (Fachmittelschule) in die Lehrpersonenbildung in der Schweiz. Mit der Analyse von Kritik, Konflikt und Kompromiss werden Prozesse der Harmonisierung von Bildung bei gleichze…
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- Soziologie der Konventionen
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- XXIV, 404
Migration, Education and Employment
This is an open access book which focuses on different aspects of education, employment, and successful integration of migrants in three countries: Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland. The chapters in this book reflect on these issues from micro, meso and macro perspectives; some are based on interviews with migrants and people who work with them, others on documents and literature about migration.…
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- 978-3-031-41919-5
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- VIII, 203
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Posthumanist and New Materialist Methodologies
This book features interviews with 19 scholars who do research with children in a variety of contexts. It examines how these key scholars address research 'after the child’ by exploring the opportunities and challenges of drawing on posthumanist and materialist methodologies that unsettle humanist research practices.
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- 978-981-15-2708-1
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- Children: Global Posthumanist Perspectives and Materialist Theories
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- XX, 224
First-in-Family Students, University Experience and Family Life
This open access book, now in its second edition, offers a comprehensive overview of the experiences of First in Family (FiF) or first-generation students in higher education. It draws upon narratives of students and their family members and spans the entire university student life cycle (pre-entry, commencement, progression and graduation) with a focus on specific cohorts including mature-aged…
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- 978-3-031-34450-3
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- XXIII, 294
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Schools and Society During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This open access book provides an analysis of the effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on diverse education systems, and of the results of the policies adopted to sustain educational opportunities. Through a series of diverse national case studies, the book examines the preexisting fragilities and vulnerabilities in educational structures which shaped the nature of the varied responses, around the …
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- 978-3-031-42670-4
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- VI, 262
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