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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"educational inequalities"”.
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The long arm of childhood bereavement : parental death and pathways to adult health and educational inequalities.
… between childhood parental death and health and educational attainment, the pathways and mechanisms that explain these relationships are not well-understood. This dissertation investigates following questions: Does childhood parental death matter for young adult health and educational attainment? …
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ANALYSING TEACHERS' RELATIONSHIPS TO INVESTIGATE TERTIARY EFFECT AND WORK-RELATED OUTCOMES
… so-called tertiary effects of social origin on educational inequalities—namely, the often unconscious ways in which schools and their agents contribute to the reproduction of these inequalities. The use of Social Network Analysis (SNA) offers an innovative contribution to this field by exploring …
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Reorganization of the elementary schools in the Linden Union High School District
… larger administrative units in order to improve educational services?</p><p>To determine if a plane of reorganization is feasible answers will be sought for the following questions: (1) What is the financial ability of the existing school districts?; (2) Are there inequalities in the economic …
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New Bildung chances for the disadvantaged through reconstruction of online social capital : an empirical research into informal learning of migrant youth in online socio-cultural networks
Against the background of the long-time educational disadvantages of the migrant youth in Germany that again have been explicitly indicated by the dissatisfactory PISA results, this dissertation project has explored the contingencies in online informal learning space to moderate the educational …
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Who benefits from online education? How the implementation of technology in higher education can result in increasing inequalities in higher education institutions
… in higher education could increase existing inequalities amongst students from different backgrounds. The paper will do this by demonstrating the qualitative and quantitative factors which are the underlying reasons for some students doing better in an online setting compared to others. …
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A contemporary civil rights issue: the thoughts of African American Christian religious leaders and university professors on seeking public office (a life history method)
… of their fight for economic, political, and educational rights from the 1960s to the present day. It critiques how ideas and terms such as ""leadership"" and ""activism"" have evolved in the African American experience, and how African Americans themselves have sought to participate in these …
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Masculinity, fathers and family literacy: Glimpses behind the ‘hard-man’ front
… with all dimensions of their children’s educational development. This is important in the context of widespread concern about persistent literacy inequalities in Ireland and beyond. Boys’ literacy performance is declining at a time when traditional and technological literacies are central …
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Inner-City Children and Environmental Equity: Evidence from Philadelphia
… are often the victims of social, economic, and educational inequalities leading to the under-allocation of resources for their public schools. Patterns of wealth, advantage and disadvantage are geographically visible in Philadelphia's urban fabric in the segregation of many black and low-income …
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Efeitos do programa Pé-de-Meia no ensino médio das escolas públicas brasileiras
… engagement are central challenges for reducing educational inequalities in Brazil. In this context, the Federal Government launched the Pé-de-Meia Program in 2024 as a financial-educational incentive aimed at promoting school retention and academic progression among low-income students. This …
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Becoming Prospective Medicine Students. A Case Study of Access to Medicine Students’ Descriptions of Their Experiences of a Further Education Course in the UK as Determined Through Narrative Enquiry and Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis
… promoting equity and inclusion for socially and educationally disadvantaged students. The thesis contributes to the literature on widening participation in Higher Education (HE), mainly widening participation in medicine. Only the second educational research report into an ‘Access to medicine’ …
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Digital Technology and Education in India: Unequal Access and Outcomes
… of equity, access, and socio-economic impacts of educational technology. Central to this dissertation is an exploration of how educational technology functions within and reproduces the broader systems of inequality. The first chapter examines how students and teachers navigated the sudden shift …
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Factors Influencing Undergraduate Women's Educational Aspirations
… The further one progresses through the educational pipeline, the more likely it is that she may prosper. However, in a society bolstered by patriarchal systems, economic and educational inequalities exist among the genders. Educational aspirations are influenced by students' …
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Validation of the Resilience Competencies Scale (RCS) for Applications among American Indian Youth
Historical trauma, poverty, educational inequalities, and discrimination are among the many factors contributing to current problems, such as substance abuse, experienced by some American Indian youth today. Much of the literature on American Indian adolescents has been problem-focused; but it is …
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Teacher Sensemaking in Times of Crisis: A Case Study of the Teaching of High School Ethnic Studies Classes During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Black Lives Matter Protests
… early indicators suggest that existing educational inequalities for students of color will be exacerbated. This study explored ethnic studies teacher sensemaking to understand how teachers adapted their pedagogy during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests. …
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Imagining and Navigating the Future: Educational Aspirations and Agency of Economically Disadvantaged Ethiopian Secondary School Students
… low completion rates of these groups widen the educational inequalities in the country. The government of Ethiopia has sought to allocate resources to narrow the educational inequality, but the policy framework is not based on the capabilities of students or their ability to utilize resources to …
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Inclusion in Practice: An explanatory study of how patterns of classroom discourse shape processes of educational inclusion in Tanzanian secondary school classrooms
… expansion in enrolment masks the reality that educational inequalities are widening. Using a comparative and in-depth qualitative research design, this dissertation explores processes of educational inclusion and exclusion as they unfold within the classroom walls, where it is teachers who …
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Shining a Light: A Single Case Study of Shine Literacy and the Implementation of their Literacy Interventions During the COVID-19 Pandemic
… to the low literacy levels and long-standing educational inequalities in South Africa.
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DFI funding and infrastructure development In South Africa: A case of under resourced schools in Northern Cape
… Northern Cape, South Africa, and their impact on educational performance. The research problem is centred on the persistent lack of adequate infrastructure in schools, which hinders access to quality education and exacerbates educational inequalities. The study sought to explore how DFI-funded …
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Inequalities in educational attainment across rural and urban locations: secondary data analysis of pupil outcomes in Northern Ireland
… to examining the factors that contribute to educational inequalities is extensive, yet the factor of urban-rural location is rarely focused on. Using an intersectional perspective (Crenshaw, 1989; 1991) this thesis investigated the impact of urban-rural location on primary and post-primary …
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Lei N° 13.415/2017: contra-ataque tecnicista e a intensificação da dualidade estrutural no Ensino Médio brasileiro.
… they are inserted in Brazilian society, as an educational phenomenon that proposes to direct the training process from a determinated vision of world formulated within a class perspective. The bibliographic survey carried out to characterize the structural duality in the Brazilian context was …
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