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Direct linkBeauvais, Clementine – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2017
This article explores the ideological function of the derogatory label of "pushy parent", which, since the 1980s, has been used considerably in journalistic, popular, political and academic discourses in the UK and the USA. "Pushy parent" is not a descriptive term, but a conceptually vague label implying the existence of…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Labeling (of Persons), Child Rearing, Parent Aspiration
Galletly, Susan A.; Knight, Bruce Allen; Dekkers, John – Australasian Journal of Special Education, 2010
Decision-making regarding intensive instructional support for children with special needs should build from children's instructional needs, and not from diagnostic labelling and criteria for funding eligibility. Cognitive referencing, the use of results on intelligence and language quotients to decide children's academic options and funding…
Descriptors: Eligibility, Educational Finance, Foreign Countries, Special Needs Students
Rose, Mike – Phi Delta Kappan, 2008
In this article, the author uses the academic/vocational split to reflect on some broader educational and cultural issues, for he thinks that the distinction as it is played out in school has much to teach people, whether or not they are directly involved with the issue of vocational education or, as it is now often called, career and technical…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Vocational Education, Social Status, Social Influences
