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Researching Ethnic Minority Students in a Chinese Context: Mixed Methods Design for Cross Cultural Understandings
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Kennedy, Kerry J.; Hue, Ming Tak – Comparative Education, 2011
Research on and with ethnic minority students is characterised by a growing international literature that privileges "liberal multiculturalism" as a lens through which to understand their experiences, yet ethnic diversity is constructed and responded to in many societies that are not underpinned by liberal democratic values. In this…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Democratic Values, Minority Group Students, Cultural Awareness
Do You Want Your Daughter or Son in Your Trade? A Study of the Attitudes of Job Incumbents to Females Entering Male-Dominated Trades.
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Davis, Denis J. – Comparative Education, 1987
Demonstrates how important the factor of male attitudes toward women pursuing male-dominated occupations can be in hindering the diversification of female occupational patterns. Examines the failure of a vigorous government-sponsored campaign in 1981 to introduce women into the male-dominated trades in the industrial region of Newcastle,…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Employment Opportunities, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Father Attitudes
Whatever Happened to the Comprehensive School Movement in Austria?
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Budzinski, Elisabeth – Comparative Education, 1986
Delineates the political movements and tensions within Austria that thwarted plans for comprehensive schooling and led to a decision in 1982 to abandon the idea of major, structural educational reform. Looks at reasons for the existence of the current selective school system and improvement measures being tried. (JHZ)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Comparative Education, Democratic Values, Educational Change