‘Teaching’ the path towards university: understanding student access through storied-futures and meritocratic grand narratives     

Neil Anthony Buddel 《British Journal of Sociology of Education》2018,39(1):16-31

The notion that the stories of our lives shape dispositions towards imagined futures is another lens through which university underrepresentation should be viewed. A storied lens attends to how futures, like university attendance, are storied during childhood to the extent that some youth imagine, and therefore plan, these futures as natural progression. Such was the case for study participants, indicating that childhood stories contain answers for mitigating social reproduction connected to parental education and cultural forces within the home. Examining social mobility through the underexplored storied-futures grand narrative presents unique solutions that lay hidden within the dominant meritocratic grand narrative.  相似文献   

Context and technology use: Opportunities and challenges of the situated perspective in technology acceptance research     

David John Lemay  Tenzin Doleck  Paul Bazelais 《British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology》2019,50(5):2450-2465

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The Historical Heart of Atmospheric Science     

Anthony J. Sadar 《Science & Education》2018,27(1-2):233-235

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A Vision for English: Rethinking the Revised National Curriculum in the Light of Contemporary Critical Theory     

John Williamson  Clare Woodall 《English in Education》1996,30(3):4-13

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Markets for `Borderless Education'     

Fielden  John 《Minerva》2001,39(1):49-62

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Graduate Programs That Prepare Educational Measurement Specialists     

Fanmin Guo  Anthony J. Nitko 《Educational Measurement》1996,15(4):28-31

What are typical requirements in graduate measurement programs? How d o programs in measurement and research methods differ?  相似文献   

Occupational Knowledge and Practice amongst UK University Research Administrators     

John Hockey  Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson 《Higher Education Quarterly》2009,63(2):141-159

With the exception of lecturing staff, research on occupational groups and cultures within the UK higher education system is relatively sparse. This paper focuses upon one specialist group, to-date under-researched but which plays a central role in contemporary higher education administration: graduate research administrators. This occupational group is of particular interest as its members administer and manage an increasing complex and key area of university life, which in many cases appears to span the putative occupational divide between 'academic' and 'administrative' work. Based upon qualitative interviews with 27 research administrators, and using some of Bourdieu's conceptual devices, the paper analyses particular kinds of informal occupational knowledge and practice, necessary in order effectively to 'do' the complex task of research administration in the pressurized environment of contemporary British higher education.  相似文献   

Eugenics and the Clergy in the Early Twentieth‐Century United States     

John M. Bozeman 《Journal of American culture (Malden, Mass. : 2003)》2004,27(4):422-431

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Should Children Attend Their Parent's Funerals?     

John Holland 《Pastoral Care in Education》2004,22(1):10-14

The paper discusses elements of the findings of 'Iceberg', a doctoral study at the University of York addressing many issues of child bereavement through a retrospective study of nearly one hundred individuals who had either experienced the death of a parent when they were at school, or were the surviving parent of such a child. The research revealed issues of lack of control and information for children after a parental death. Forty-seven per cent of those in the study attended the funeral of their parent. There was correlation between the age of children and attendance at the funeral. Of the fifty-three per cent of children not attending, twenty-four per cent of them were forbidden to attend, whilst eleven per cent of them were distracted from attending the funeral, such as being sent to school or a neighbours and being unaware that it was taking place. None of the children attending the funeral reported any negative experiences, and two thirds of them reported it as a positive or helpful event. In contrast, over three-quarters of those not attending later wished that they had. Over a third had feelings of regret, others feeling that they had been excluded from the family at the time of the death, and felt anger, hurt, and frustration. The conclusion was that the best strategy is to give children informed choice about whether or not to attend. If children do attend a negative outcome seems unlikely, but it would be prudent to prepare them as to what to expect at the ceremony.  相似文献   

Narrowness and liberality     

John Agresto 《Academic Questions》2003,17(1):82-86

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