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Aurélie Van de Peer; Orhan Agirdag; Freddy Mortier – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2024
Educational research acknowledges the significant challenges faced by racialized minority students at school. This interview-based study examines the experiences of racialized minority students in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking region in Belgium, regarding a social science curriculum that addresses the power dynamics and privilege involved in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Minority Group Students, Racial Factors, Social Sciences
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Dassonneville, Ruth; Quintelier, Ellen; Hooghe, Marc; Claes, Ellen – Applied Developmental Science, 2012
It is generally assumed that civic education efforts will have a positive effect on the political attitudes and behaviors of adolescents and young adults. In the present study, we distinguish among formal civic education, an open classroom climate, and active learning strategies, and we explore their relation with political interest, efficacy,…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Foreign Countries, Political Attitudes, Adolescent Attitudes
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Van Houtte, Mieke; Stevens, Peter A. J. – Oxford Review of Education, 2010
Starting from the present knowledge society with its social overvaluing of cognition and white-collar jobs at the expense of manual labour, this article examines whether school type--academic versus technical/vocational schools--relates to students' sense of futility. It assesses the schools' culture of futility and investigates the explanatory…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Schools, Technical Education, School Culture