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Lischka-Schmidt, Richard – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2023
Talcott Parsons did not leave us with a global and consistent sociology of education. Instead, different aspects can be found in Parsons's oeuvre in different theoretical contexts. This paper summarises these different parts of Parsons's sociology of education -- his writings on the concepts of education and socialisation, the university, the…
Descriptors: Educational Sociology, Educational Theories, Socialization, Higher Education
Trang, Tran T. T. – Policy Futures in Education, 2023
National culture determines educational culture. The educational culture characteristics of each country will be demonstrated through the awareness of education, the way the educational apparatus is organized, and the way that education deals with the crisis in the context of the COVID-19 epidemic on a global scale. The study uses structural…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Asian Culture, Educational Environment
Hourani, Rida Blaik; Litz, David; Smith, Allison – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2020
This case study explores how educational leaders in a UAE juvenile correctional educational center perceive their multi-dimensional responsibilities and roles. The dynamics of leaders' responsibilities and roles, as well as the constraints they face, are conceptualized within the paradigms of functionalism, conflict theory, and postmodernism. To…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Delinquency, Correctional Institutions, Correctional Education
Elliott, Robert W. – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2020
Amidst declining state revenues, high transfer rates, and low student retention rates, academic advisors play increasingly crucial roles in attracting and retaining students at their institutions. Using a blend of structural functionalism and professionalism frameworks, the purpose of this literature review is to inform student affairs…
Descriptors: College Students, School Holding Power, Academic Advising, Academic Persistence
Johnson, Mark William – Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2016
For many years there have been well-funded project opportunities for developing educational innovations, both pedagogical and technological, to fulfil the educational ambitions of national governments and European agencies. Projects have been funded on the basis of competitive bidding against themes identified by funders. Calls for funding…
Descriptors: Philosophy, World Views, Foreign Countries, Educational Innovation
Wilbers, Stefan; Brankovic, Jelena – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2023
Nowadays, university rankings are a familiar phenomenon in higher education all over the world. But how did rankings achieve this status? To address this question, we bring in a historical-sociological perspective and conceptualize rankings as a phenomenon in history. We focus on the United States and identify the emergence of a specific…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Colleges, Institutional Characteristics, Reputation
Shamsaei, Maryam; Shah, Mohd Hazim – Dinamika Ilmu, 2022
Recognizing the position and validity of science in understanding religion has led to very diverse algorithms in the Islamic world. It must be admitted that before the fourteenth century, there were no views on the confrontation of or separation of the realm of science and religion. Although after the nineteenth century, the advent of modernist…
Descriptors: Religion, Religious Factors, Scientific Research, Islam
Alsubaiai, Hanan Sarhan – English Language Teaching, 2021
This study aims to assess the evidence regarding the relationship between previous and new schools of linguistics. According to Kuhn (1970), old linguistic paradigms incorporate vocabulary and apparatus from previous or traditional paradigms. In particular, this review addresses the Question: Do new paradigms in linguistic arise from old or…
Descriptors: Correlation, Generative Grammar, Linguistic Theory, Comparative Analysis
Orozco, Luis Antonio, Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The continual rise of student loan debt seems to show the world that students are willing to do whatever it takes to become successful in life. However, when they have completed the requirement for the degree many question if the whole journey was worth it. The purpose of this quantitative causal-comparative study was to examine the potential…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, High School Students, Postsecondary Education, Statistical Analysis
Williams, Hakim Mohandas Amani – Critical Studies in Education, 2019
I reappropriate the image of a space-time warp and its notion of disorientation to argue that colonialism created a warp in Trinidad's educational system. Through an analysis of school violence and the wider network of structural violence in which it is steeped, I focus on three outmoded aspects as evidence of this warp--hierarchies, curricula and…
Descriptors: Foreign Policy, Foreign Countries, Violence, Educational Environment
Dickerson, Sean; Agosto, Vonzell – Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue, 2015
A content analysis was conducted of a curriculum guide used in a community-mentoring program for Black male youth nationwide. Of the Black curriculum orientations outlined, functionalism and accommodationism were prevalent and embedded in deficit perspectives about Black males and their families, namely their resistance to change, progress, and…
Descriptors: Mentors, Males, African Americans, Community Programs
Chen, Stephen H.; Zhou, Qing – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Research in developmental psychology has traditionally focused on parents' roles as agents of emotion socialization in their children's socioemotional development. By contrast, little longitudinal research has examined sociocultural mechanisms shaping parents' own emotional development. Immigrant parents are an ideal population in which to examine…
Descriptors: Chinese Americans, Immigrants, Parents, Social Influences
Fevre, Ralph; Guimarães, Isabel; Zhao, Wei – Review of Education, 2020
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) is an important indicator of the increased global importance of education. It defines the goal of education at the level of the child rather than the state, the community or household. The requirement that each child be treated as an individual who can expect to see their 'personality, talents…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Childrens Rights, Children, Treaties
Wadhwa, Rashim – Higher Education for the Future, 2018
In India, the inequality in education from the perspective of first-generation learners has drawn little attention. So there is an urgent need to pay attention on the issue of how robust is the effect of first generation in causing educational inequality as the first-generation students are typically confronted with the dynamics of caste-based…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Self Efficacy, Foreign Countries, Equal Education
Merced, Matthew; Stutman, Zachariah E.; Mann, Sandra T. – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2018
Psychology graduate students in the United States are expected to demonstrate competency in the history of psychology. Despite the topic's importance, there are limited guidelines. The present study examined history and systems of psychology (HSP) course syllabi from American Psychological Association accredited Doctor of Psychology programs. Of…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Psychology, History Instruction, Content Analysis