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The Rise of the Individual Learner: Sociological Insights on the History of Student-Centred Learning
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David Furtschegger – History of Education, 2024
Research on student-centred learning lacks analyses of sociohistorical developments. This article contributes to this niche by developing a sociologically designed draft of its major upheavals. Drawing on Foucault's genesis of governmental rationalities, it links the emergence of educational subjectivations to processes of structural change.…
Descriptors: Social History, Student Centered Learning, Sociology, Social Science Research
Educational Inequality and State-Sponsored Elite Education: The Case of the Dutch Gymnasium
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Merry, Michael S.; Boterman, Willem – Comparative Education, 2020
In this paper the authors examine the role the Dutch gymnasium continues to play in the institutional maintenance of educational inequality. To that end they examine the relational and spatial features of state-sponsored elite education in the Dutch system: the unique identity the gymnasium seeks to cultivate; its value to its consumers; its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Secondary Schools, Public Schools
Schools and the Equal Opportunity Problem. CESifo Seminar Series
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Woessmann, Ludger, Ed.; Peterson, Paul E., Ed. – MIT Press, 2007
Leading researchers from the United States and Europe report on new findings on the effect of education on equal opportunity, using economic and statistical techniques to assess the results of education policy reform in countries including the United States, Britain, Sweden, Germany, and Italy. Much educational research today is focused on…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational Policy, Educational Change, Educational Opportunities