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McInerney, Peter; Smyth, John – Ethnography and Education, 2014
The persistent failure of contemporary policies to improve school retention rates and close the achievement gap between students from low and high socio-economic (SES) backgrounds should be a matter of grave concern. In this article, we set out to show what it means to be educated in a context of disadvantage from the perspectives of young people…
Descriptors: Low Income, Neighborhoods, Educational Opportunities, Educationally Disadvantaged
Henderson Murphy, Peggy – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Although in recent decades many of the outer Appalachian counties have stabilized economically, the central region of Appalachia continues to have the highest concentration of distressed and at-risk counties in the country. The geographic isolation and cultural characteristics of Appalachian communities have limited their ability to achieve…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Rural Areas, Qualitative Research, Student Characteristics
El-Kogali, Safaa El Tayeb, Ed.; Krafft, Caroline, Ed. – World Bank, 2020
Education, which has been at the heart of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region's history and civilizations for centuries, has a large untapped potential to contribute to human capital, well-being, and wealth. The region has invested heavily in education for decades, but it has not been able to reap the benefits of its investments.…
Descriptors: Geographic Regions, Human Capital, Well Being, Educational Change
Remedios, Richard; Richardson, John T. E. – Distance Education, 2013
Achievement goals predict learning in children and young adults, but it is unclear whether they apply to older adults and how they are related to approaches to studying. An online survey examined achievement goals, approaches to studying and academic attainment in distance learners. The Achievement Goals Questionnaire-Revised and the Approaches to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Adult Students, Online Surveys
Kabiru, Caroline W.; Mojola, Sanyu A.; Beguy, Donatien; Okigbo, Chinelo – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2013
We explore the concerns, challenges, aspirations, and expectations of sub-Saharan African youth, and investigate how these youth cope with neighborhood constraints to aspiration achievement. We draw on cross-sectional survey data from 4,033 12-22-year-olds (50.3% males) from two Kenyan urban slums and subsequent in-depth interviews conducted with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disadvantaged Youth, Coping, Neighborhoods
Arbelo Marrero, Floralba – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study examined the academic persistence of 10 undergraduate Hispanic nontraditional students enrolled at a public and a private not for profit Hispanic Serving Institution in the southeastern region of the United States, each in their last year of a bachelor degree program. Using a phenomenological research design and an ecological and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Hispanic American Students, Academic Persistence, Institutional Characteristics
Brown, Gerald Christopher – ProQuest LLC, 2013
A qualitative study design was used to describe the perceptions and beliefs about higher education of seven first generation college Latino male students enrolled in higher education in the Southeastern part of the U.S. The purpose of this investigation was to explore the students' experiences regarding the various factors, which they perceive may…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, First Generation College Students, Males, Qualitative Research
Ule, Mirjana; Živoder, Andreja; du Bois-Reymond, Manuela – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2015
This article explores parental involvement in the educational trajectories of children in Europe. The analysis is embedded in the framework of the three dominant contemporary social processes that have been acknowledged as crucial factors for the educational and life trajectories of young people today, i.e. familialization, institutionalization,…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Qualitative Research, Parent Attitudes, Economically Disadvantaged
Gateley, D. E. – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2015
The UK government's austerity cuts have negatively impacted many voluntary-sector interventions that provided support to refugees. One such intervention, the Refugee Integration and Employment Service (RIES), is discussed in this paper. The RIES was a UK Border Agency-funded integration programme for recognised refugees and operated through…
Descriptors: Refugees, Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Intervention
Gale, Trevor; Molla, Tebeje – Journal of Education Policy, 2015
Primarily developed as an alternative to narrow measures of well-being such as utility and resources, Amartya Sen's capability approach places strong emphasis on people's substantive opportunities. As a broad normative framework, the capability approach has become a valuable tool for understanding and evaluating social arrangements (e.g. education…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Educational Policy, Disadvantaged, Outcomes of Education
Simonová, Natalie; Soukup, Petr – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2015
The main objective of this paper is to show to what extent and why students with the same academic aptitude but different social backgrounds have different odds of entering university. For our analysis, we separated primary and secondary factors of social origin in the formation of educational inequalities. The results show that the primary and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Aspiration, Social Differences, Cultural Capital
Education Council, 2015
There are many factors that affect student engagement in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Underlying this are the views of the broader community--and parents in particular--about the relevance of STEM, and the approach to the teaching and learning of STEM from the early years and continuing throughout schooling. Connected…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Educational Strategies, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
Macías, Luis Fernando; Collet, Bruce Anthony – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2016
This research examines the impact of parental deportation on Latino/a adolescents' postsecondary aspirations. Based on interviews with students, their families, and site observations, the study finds that for some adolescents who held college aspirations prior to the deportation, this type of abrupt parental removal negatively affects their…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Academic Aspiration, Student Educational Objectives, Immigration
Means, Darris R.; Clayton, Ashley B.; Conzelmann, Johnathan G.; Baynes, Patti; Umbach, Paul D. – Review of Higher Education, 2016
This qualitative case study explores the career and educational aspirations, college choice process, and college barriers and opportunities of 26 rural, African American high school students. Data included interviews with 26 students and 11 school staff members. Findings suggest that the students' rural context shapes aspirations. In addition,…
Descriptors: Rural Youth, Rural Schools, High School Students, African American Students
Gokpinar, Tuba; Reiss, Michael – International Journal of Science Education, 2016
The literature in science education highlights the potentially significant role of outside-school factors such as parents, cultural contexts and role models in students' formation of science attitudes and aspirations, and their attainment in science classes. In this paper, building on and linking Bourdieu's key concepts of habitus, cultural and…
Descriptors: Science Education, Case Studies, Models, Science Instruction