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Existing without Living: A Sociological Perspective of Bedoons' Educational Experience at Kuwait University
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Alanezi, Nawaf; Alrashidi, A. – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2023
The impact of the restrictive and implicitly repressive system adopted by the Kuwaiti government against Bedoons (stateless people living in Kuwait) is investigated through semi-structured interviews with seven Bedoon students at Kuwait University. The study analyzes their narratives in order to critically deconstruct Bedoons' experiences and how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnic Groups, College Students, Student Experience
Capacity or Money? Why Students Choose to Drop out of Junior High School in Rural Northeast China
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Wan, Yi – Educational Review, 2022
This study analyses student and parental perspectives on the decision to drop out from a rural junior high school in northeast China. Data were collected in 2017 via participant observation, focus groups with students who were considered at "high risk of dropping out", and semi-structured interviews with parents. The official Chinese…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Student Attitudes, Parent Attitudes
'Religious Schools, Civic Education, and Public Policy: A Framework for Evaluation and Decision'
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MacMullen, Ian – Theory and Research in Education, 2018
Some people claim that religious schools are poorly suited to prepare children for citizenship in a multi-religious society that is (or aspires to be) a liberal democracy. In what sense(s), by what mechanism(s), and to what extent might this be so? And what could be the implications for public policy? I propose an analytical and evaluative…
Descriptors: Religious Cultural Groups, Private Schools, Civics, Citizenship Education