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Direct linkErichsen, Jakob; Waldow, Florian – European Education, 2020
Exclusive boarding schools in social environments where the meritocratic norm is prevalent are faced with a tension between parents' desire to give their children a head start in the competition for educational qualifications, social prestige and jobs on the one hand and the powerful social norm of advancement by merit under conditions of…
Descriptors: Boarding Schools, Social Environment, Competition, Parent Aspiration
Glaesser, Judith – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2008
School systems may be usefully characterized according to Turner's proposed ideal types of sponsored and contest mobility. Germany is a critical case with respect to this typology because its secondary school system is stratified and selective, and yet it offers the opportunity for upward and downward mobility. Drawing on an analysis of a German…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Secondary Schools
Download full textSwigget, Glen Levin – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1916
The program of the subsection on commercial education of the education section of the Pan American Scientific Congress, held in Washington City December 27, 1915 to January 8, 1916 under the auspices of the U.S. Government, was so comprehensive and the papers of such value that the Commissioner of the Bureau of Education requested the assistant…
Descriptors: Business Education, Urban Areas, Industrial Education, International Trade
