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Analysing Biographies in Transnational Educational Spaces: Transitions to Higher Education of Alumni from an IB School in Lisbon
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Anne Schippling; Pedro Abrantes – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2024
Taking the example of educational biographies of alumni of an IB World School in the Lisbon region, the article aims to explore the potential of the concept of transnational educational spaces for biographical research. We focus on the biographical stage of transition to higher education as a crucial phase of students' biographies where we can…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Biographies, International Education, Higher Education
Legitimacy, Power, and Aesthetics, in the International Baccalaureate
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Alexander Gardner-McTaggart – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2024
This paper explores the facilitation of the emancipatory in an International Baccalaureate ("IB") context of privilege. It aligns with the idea that capitalism, even in welfare state democracies or 'do good' corporations, maintains the interests of the owners of capital. It is by nature unjust and exploitative and must conceal this…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Aesthetics, Advanced Placement Programs, Neoliberalism
The Advanced Placement Program and Educational Inequality
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Stephanie Owen – Education Finance and Policy, 2025
The Advanced Placement (AP) program is widely offered in American high schools and has been touted as a way to close racial and socioeconomic gaps in educational outcomes. Using administrative data from Michigan, I exploit variation within high schools across time in AP course offerings to identify the relationship between AP course availability,…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Equal Education, Socioeconomic Status, Social Differences
The Advanced Placement Program and Educational Inequality
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Stephanie Owen – Grantee Submission, 2024
The Advanced Placement (AP) program is widely offered in American high schools and has been touted as a way to close racial and socioeconomic gaps in educational outcomes. Using administrative data from Michigan, I exploit variation within high schools across time in AP course offerings to identify the relationship between AP course availability,…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Equal Education, Socioeconomic Status, Social Differences