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Showing 1 to 20 of 84 for “"Sociology of Education"”.
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The nature of professional reasoning: An analysis of design in the engineering curriculum
Access to the practice of a profession is controlled by formal education structures. These structures are intended to induct future professionals into the specialised knowledge, skills and values that underpin that profession. Yet, despite meeting the academic requirements of a professional degree, …
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An investigation of the co-constitution of mathematics and learner identification in the pedagogic situations of schooling, with special reference to the teaching and learning of mathematics in a selection of grade 10 mathematics lessons at five scho
The study is located within the broad framework of the sociology of education, specifically drawing on Bernstein's sociological theory of education and its application in the investigation of the relations between pedagogy and social justice. The specific problematic within which my study is …
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A theoretical re-assessment of the use of the distinction between everyday and acadamic knowledges in Basil Bernstein's theory of educational transmissions
… position at present in the Bernsteinian subfield of the Sociology of Education, that Basil Bernstein’s main ideas are sufficiently represented by frameworks constructed around the distinction between everyday knowledge/thought and academic knowledge/thought. A survey of some contemporary …
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The social regulation of literacy through teacher expectations
This study is motivated by the problematic of underdeveloped literacy skills, particularly the reading and writing skills of at-risk learners, and draws theoretical support from Basil Bernstein’s sociology of education linked with the ‘school effectiveness’ theory of teacher expectations. I suggest …
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High school achievement among working class students in Junior Lyceums
Research in the sociology of education frequently shows that economic, social and cultural inequalities found in the structure of society as a whole are reproduced in the educational achievements of students. Alternative perceptions argue that these outcomes and processes cannot be generalisable …
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A sociological analysis of phonics lesson plans across four structured pedagogic programmes in South Africa
… school improvement efforts have taken the form of structured pedagogic programmes – “a triple cocktail” of interventions that offer teacher training, resource provisioning and lesson plans in an attempt to alter teacher's pedagogy and improve learning outcomes. Focusing on lesson plans (also …
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Waiting to learn : an analysis of instruction in four preschool settings in poor contexts
Worldwide there has been a growing recognition of the important role that preschool education can play in supporting later school (and life) success. At the school level, studies that examine and broaden knowledge of educational transmission in the classroom (pedagogic discourse) have been useful …
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Pedagogical interactions and opportunities for literacy engagement in two South African Grade R classes
This study, embedded in a sociology of education framework, uses Bernstein’s concept of framing to compare and contrast two Grade R classes in the Western Cape, South Africa. It seeks to answer the following question: What are the differences, if any, between pedagogic practices in two Grade R …
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A study of the constitution of Grade 8 mathematics within the context of the Revised National Curriculum Statement in five Western Cape schools
… is an investigation into the constitution of school mathematics within the context of the Revised National Curriculum Statement in a selection of Grade 8 mathematics lessons in five working-class schools in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. The study is located within the broad …
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Student success in an introductory engineering course : an investigation of approach to learning and cultural capital
The construct of approach to learning has proved to be powerful in explaining differences in students' experiences of learning in higher education. However this construct does not explain the impact that students' socio-economic background has on their experiences of higher education. For this …
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‘Between two lives': parenting and impacts on academic, professional achievements and socio-emotional outcomes for British-Ghanaians
Research undertaken within the Sociology of Education frequently highlights concerns about the underachievement of Black students in education and, later, within the labour market. Yet, there are a number of shortcomings associated with research in this area. Firstly, there is a tendency to …
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Gender, Academic Achievement, and Meanings of Schooling in Ras al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates
… study examines an interesting phenomenon: the educational gap between boys and girls in the United Arab Emirates. Drawing on literature in sociology of gender, sociology of education, and Middle East Studies, this dissertation explores who is and who is not academically achieving (defined …
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High School Dropout Experiences: A Social Capital Perspective
The purpose of this study was to record and analyze students' experiences with dropping out of high school within a social capital framework. Discussing the stories of high school dropouts provided valuable information related to the root causes of dropout behaviors in a social capital context. …
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Middle schools: a sociological interpretation of their development and practice
… school system in England. This new category of schools is not a homogeneous one. The two main types of middle school tater for pupils aged either 8 - 12 or 9 - 13 years, but there are other variants whose pupils are in the age range 9 - 12, 10 - 13 and 10 - 14 years. Administratively middle …
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Science aspirations: Investigating the views of 11-14 year old minority ethnic pupils
The importance of science for the economy and the value of scientific literacy in contemporary society are widely acknowledged. However, there are concerns that young people, particularly girls and minority ethnic students, are ‘leaking’ from the science education pipeline (notably the physical …
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Using Habermas’s Theory of Communicative Action to analyze the Changing Nature of School Education in Hong Kong (1945-2008)
Abstract Based on Habermas’s theory of communicative action, a study of school education in Hong Kong was conducted, with a span more than sixty years from 1945 to 2008. It focused on how social reproduction was possible in school education, how school education was worked in general, and how …
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Exploring the Strategies that Latina Students Use to Navigate Work and Family Aspirations: A Case Study of Latina College Students
Post-secondary educational institutions have seen an unprecedented increase in the enrollment of women, most significantly within the last four decades. Commonly known as the college gender gap, extensive research has surfaced to address the causes of this rising trend, paying special attention to …
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Curriculum Governance in the Professions: A Comparative and Sociological Analysis of Engineering Accreditation
Professional education operates in a tension between its two key institutional homes – universities and professional bodies. Curriculum governance – the structures and processes for making decisions about the curriculum – is embedded in higher education but influenced by professional accreditation. …
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The 1985 school crisis in the Western Cape
… the objective to construct a detailed chronology of the events of the 1985 school crisis particularly in African schools in the Western Cape and to reflect on the relationship between the school crisis and the organic crisis in South Africa and the Western Cape in particular. The data for the …
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The vocationalisation of the school curriculum: society, state and economy
… thesis is concerned with the vocationalisation of the school curriculum in Britain from the late nineteenth century to the present. It consists of three sections. The first section constitutes the major theoretical component of the work, and develops a view of society as a dialectically …
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