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Bae, Sohee; Park, Joseph Sung-Yul – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2020
This paper examines how entrepreneurial visions of the future contribute to neoliberalism's appropriation of language learning as a strategy for capital accumulation. Taking as an example South Korea's heavy investment in children's English language learning -- commonly known as early English education ("yeongeo jogi gyoyuk") -- it…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Ferguson, Jason L.; Ready, Douglas D. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2011
Inherited privilege and status remain powerful factors in the distribution of opportunity in American life. These transfers of socioeconomic resources across generations are facilitated by the links between adult educational attainment and children's cognitive skills. Our current study expands the notion of social reproduction beyond this narrow…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Educational Attainment, Young Children, Grandchildren