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Aurélie Van de Peer; Orhan Agirdag; Freddy Mortier – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2024
Educational research acknowledges the significant challenges faced by racialized minority students at school. This interview-based study examines the experiences of racialized minority students in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking region in Belgium, regarding a social science curriculum that addresses the power dynamics and privilege involved in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Minority Group Students, Racial Factors, Social Sciences
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Van Houtte, Mieke; Stevens, Peter A. J. – Oxford Review of Education, 2010
Starting from the present knowledge society with its social overvaluing of cognition and white-collar jobs at the expense of manual labour, this article examines whether school type--academic versus technical/vocational schools--relates to students' sense of futility. It assesses the schools' culture of futility and investigates the explanatory…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Schools, Technical Education, School Culture