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Direct linkMahiri, Jabari – Teachers College Press, 2017
This book answers: (1) how do socially constructed concepts of race dominate and limit understandings and practices of multicultural education; and (2) since race is socially constructed, how do we deconstruct it? The author argues that multicultural education needs to move beyond racial categories defined and sustained by the ideological, social,…
Descriptors: Race, Multicultural Education, Self Concept, Ethnography
Smyth, John; Wrigley, Terry – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2013
This book confronts one of the most enduring and controversial issues in education--the nexus between poverty and underachievement. The topic has become a key contemporary battleground in the struggle to raise standards. "Living on the Edge" maps and compares a number of competing explanations, critiques inadequate and deficit accounts,…
Descriptors: Poverty, Underachievement, Correlation, Environmental Influences
Tierney, William G., Ed. – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015
In "Rethinking Education and Poverty," William G. Tierney brings together scholars from around the world to examine the complex relationship between poverty and education in the twenty first century. International in scope, this book assembles the best contemporary thinking about how education can mediate class and improve the lives of…
Descriptors: Poverty, Correlation, Role of Education, Social Influences
Burger-Helmchen, Thierry, Ed. – InTech, 2012
Chapters in this book include: (1) The Psychology of Entrepreneurship (Melek Kalkan and Canani Kaygusuz); (2) Entrepreneurial Intentions: The Role of the Cognitive Variables (Jose C. Sanchez); (3) Do External Factors Influence Students' Entrepreneurial Inclination? An Evidence Based Approach (Ishfaq Ahmed, Muhammad Musarrat Nawaz and Muhammad…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Entrepreneurship, Social Capital, Financial Problems
OECD Publishing (NJ3), 2010
"Highlights from Education at a Glance 2010" is a companion publication to the OECD's flagship compendium of education statistics, Education at a Glance. It provides easily accessible data on key topics in education today, including: education levels and student numbers, economic and social benefits of education, education spending, the school…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Outcomes of Education, Educational Indicators, Foreign Countries
Poole, Millicent E.; Langan-Fox, Janice – 1997
A study examined psychological and contextual influences on the courses of Australian women's lives and careers. Data were obtained from two sources: (1) the Career Development Project (CDP), a longitudinal study of 3,000 Australian men and women who were selected from an initial sample of 17-year-olds in 1973 and whose educational and career…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Career Choice, Career Development, Career Education
