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Direct linkShane N. Phillipson; Saad M. Alamer; Sivanes Phillipson – High Ability Studies, 2024
Evaluations of gifted education in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are hampered by the lack of clear policy objectives as well as practical difficulties in obtaining data. Furthermore, it is unclear if the specific needs of gifted students are unique or shared across non-gifted students. In the current research, both gifted and non-gifted Saudi…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Academically Gifted
Simonová, Natalie; Soukup, Petr – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2015
The main objective of this paper is to show to what extent and why students with the same academic aptitude but different social backgrounds have different odds of entering university. For our analysis, we separated primary and secondary factors of social origin in the formation of educational inequalities. The results show that the primary and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Aspiration, Social Differences, Cultural Capital
Maxwell, Claire; Aggleton, Peter – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2013
This paper takes as its starting point the concept of concerted cultivation as coined by Annette Lareau. It examines whether a focus on concerted cultivation adequately captures the various practices observed in young women's experiences of being privately educated in four schools in one area of England. We suggest that a variety of practices of…
Descriptors: Females, Foreign Countries, Private Education, Curriculum
Bates, Richard – Critical Studies in Education, 2012
It is the contention of this paper that schools are currently sandwiched between demands of the economy on one side and increasingly fundamentalist communities on the other; that schools need some degree of autonomy from each; that the greatest challenge of the century is how we can live together despite our differences; and that the only way of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, Satisfaction, Community Needs
Camfield, Laura – Research Papers in Education, 2011
Much research has suggested that focusing on the determinants of female enrolment and dropout tells us little about girls' experiences of schooling in developing countries and cannot explain variation in their educational trajectories. This paper draws on quantitative (n = 1177) and qualitative data (n = 15) collected by "Young Lives" in…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Females, Educational Objectives, Outcomes of Education
Woodruff, Maria Luisa – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Undocumented students, lacking United States residency or citizenship, select colleges annually. These students navigate a college application process in California whereby they prove AB 540 residency, take standardized exams, and attend competitive four-year universities without a social security number, a driver's license, or federal financial…
Descriptors: College Students, Undocumented Immigrants, College Choice, Hispanic American Students
