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Lina Fransén; Victor Hellgren; Magnus Mortensen; Susanna Olsson; Nathalie Proos Vedin; Maja Elmgren; Marcus Lundberg; Antonia Kotronia – International Journal for Students as Partners, 2024
Students can influence their education through evaluations and as representatives in university decision-making bodies. A way to give them more power is through participation in course development as equal partners. In this study, the relationship between the outcome of a student-teacher partnership and a culture of student influence and…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Learner Engagement, Student Subcultures, Universities
Tait, Gordon – Cambridge University Press, 2017
This new book is a wide-ranging, contemporary and accessible analysis of familiar and recurring myths about mass education in the United Kingdom. Looking at a variety of important issues and problems, each chapter begins by dispelling myths and assumptions about the classroom, going beyond class, race and gender, to offer analysis of topics such…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mass Instruction, Misconceptions, Discipline
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Jackson, Carolyn; Dempster, Steve; Pollard, Lucie – Educational Review, 2015
Over the last 2--3?years there has been a sharp increase in the UK in the number of concerns voiced about "laddism", "laddish" or "lad" cultures in higher education (HE). Drawing on a project that explored laddism on a sports science degree in one university, this article explores constructions and understandings of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Subcultures, Student Behavior, Males
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Parkinson, Tom – Teaching in Higher Education, 2017
Since its beginnings in the late 1970s, punk culture has been associated with counter-mainstream ideology and anti-institutional antagonism. In particular, formal education has been criticised in punk for sustaining oppressive social and conceptual orders and associated behavioural norms. Drawing on literature and interviews, this paper focuses on…
Descriptors: Student Subcultures, Higher Education, College Faculty, Educational Strategies
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Baker, Sally; Brown, B. – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2007
Here, the narratives of a group of non-traditional students who entered traditional UK universities are examined. A number of participants felt there was a kind of romance or exotic quality to the sights, sounds and smells of traditional institutions, which constituted part of the attraction. The process of becoming a student at an elite or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personal Narratives, Nontraditional Students, College Admission
Keys, Susan; Maddox, H. – Educ Rev, 1969
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cultural Differences, Females, Parent Background
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Tarrant, Mark; North, Adrian C.; Edridge, Mark D.; Kirk, Laura E.; Smith, Elizabeth A.; Turner, Roisin E. – Journal of Adolescence, 2001
Social identity theory (SIT) was used to investigate effects of social categorization on adolescents' intergroup behaviour. Participants displayed consistent ingroup-favouring behaviour in their ratings: the ingroup was associated to a greater extent than the outgroup with positively valued dimensions, and to a lesser extent with negatively valued…
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Foreign Countries