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Janmaat, Jan Germen; Mons, Nathalie – Research Papers in Education, 2023
Many scholars argue that the practice of educational tracking exerts a distinct effect on young people's political engagement. They point out that students in academic tracks are becoming more politically engaged than those than those in vocational ones, and suggest that this may be due to differences across tracks in the curriculum, pedagogy,…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Voting, Track System (Education), Comparative Analysis
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Elena Sandoval-Lucero; Janell Lindsey; Libby Klingsmith; Rebecca Chavez – Community College Review, 2024
Objective/Research Question: This practitioner-scholar study investigated perceptions and experiences of community college students who transferred upon completion of their associate degree programs in Colorado, a state with multiple state-level transfer policies. Each student participated in a cohort-based transfer support program offered at…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Student Experience, Student Attitudes, Associate Degrees
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Daniel Alvunger – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2024
Purpose: This paper presents a qualitative systematic review of Swedish research on vocational education and training (VET) at the upper secondary school level over the past 20 years. The review is based on a theoretical model on curriculum making as social practice that may serve as model for comparative studies between countries. By introducing…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education
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Trevor Tsz-Lok Lee; Stephen Wing-Kai Chiu – Education and Urban Society, 2024
This study examines the value priorities of Chinese parents regarding their children's education in globally competitive context. Although Chinese parents are often viewed as being excessively controlling of their children and preoccupied with their academic performance, research indicates that contemporary Chinese families hold diverse beliefs…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Academic Aspiration, Global Approach, Child Development
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Avis, James – European Educational Research Journal, 2019
This paper engages with and reflects on the arguments developed by contributors to the special issue. These papers serve to provide a corrective to English and, on occasion, European perceptions, which often view the Nordic countries as being all of a piece and beacons of progressivism. The contributors provide analyses that not only point to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Social Justice, Neoliberalism
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Kosonen, Toni; Annala, Johanna; Penttinen, Leena; Mäkinen, Marita – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2023
This article explores university students' approaches to and positions with regard to making the most of their study time. The article discusses how various normative societal expectations around students' use and management of time feature in their talk about how they organise their everyday lives. The research is based on thematic interviews (n…
Descriptors: Study Habits, Time Management, Learning Activities, Student Attitudes
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Budge, Kathleen; Wargo, Elizabeth; Carr-Chellman, Davin; Canfield-Davis, Kathy – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2021
This study of rural stakeholders' perspectives related to college and career readiness exposes a nuanced dynamic that extends beyond pragmatic concerns for preparing rural students for the future. As college preparatory courses "crowded out" Career and Technical Education (CTE) offerings, stakeholders voiced a concomitant sense of losing…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, Rural Areas, Vocational Education
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Zimmermann, Markus – Education Economics, 2021
This paper estimates the effects of attending a vocational higher track secondary (HTS) school compared to a general HTS school. It considers the case of Germany, where both schools provide access to tertiary education. Identification uses selection-on-observables and instrumental variables strategies. Attending a vocational HTS school has no…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Vocational Education, Academic Education, Outcomes of Education
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Sharma, Gunjan; Mittal, Radhika; Zayan – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2023
This article engages with the teacher education (TE) reform approach adopted in India's National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. It locates the policy recommendations in the context and challenges of TE in India and makes sense of the NEP's vision for the domain. It examines the knowledge traditions and global education policy (GEP) discourses that…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
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Ostrowicka, Helena – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2022
The article presents results of research into the media debate on education in the context of higher education reform in Poland. The body of press materials comprised 884 texts. The theoretical basis included critical and post-Foucauldian discourse analysis. The study revealed five themes: (1) mechanisms of economic thematization; (2) expanding…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Discourse Analysis
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Helmstad, Glen; Jedemark, Marie – Research Papers in Education, 2022
Sweden has a long tradition of comprehensive upper-secondary education. This began in the early 1970s. It culminated in 1994 with all the programmes having a core curriculum that gave general eligibility to higher education. Conservative and liberal governments have introduced several neoliberal school reforms, which the subsequent social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Academic Education, Educational Change
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van de Werfhorst, Herman G. – British Educational Research Journal, 2021
In the Dutch stratified secondary educational system, schools vary in how many tracks are offered. While the tendency in the Netherlands is for schools to become smaller, a relevant policy question is whether multi-track school settings promote equality of educational opportunity. Comparing single-track schools at the pre-university and…
Descriptors: Track System (Education), Secondary Schools, Prevocational Education, Academic Education
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Houghton, Ann-Marie; Armstrong, Jo; Okeke, Romanus Izuchukwu – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2021
Recent policy on careers guidance in England suggests a somewhat straightforward process. The assumption is that quality careers guidance will enable young people to make informed career-related decisions. However, the 'reality' of provision is far more complex, as highlighted by the findings from a small in-depth study of careers provision in one…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
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Makosa, Pawel – International Studies in Catholic Education, 2020
Education forms a very significant activity within the Roman Catholic Church. The cultural and ethical formation of young generations and thus the future of society and the Church depend largely on it. Catholic schools grant the opportunity to base formal education on Christian anthropology and to shape students' personality in the light of the…
Descriptors: Catholics, Religious Education, Clergy, Catholic Schools
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Greene Nolan, Hillary l. – American Journal of Education, 2020
One educational structure with its own grammar is the student-teacher relationship. The conventional relational grammar involves teachers and students connecting to pursue academic learning--a grammar rooted in both historic attempts to define the professional domain of teaching as the transmission of academic knowledge as well as current efforts…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, High School Teachers, High School Students, Educational Change
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