Publication Date
In 2024 | 0 |
Since 2023 | 0 |
Since 2020 (last 5 years) | 0 |
Since 2015 (last 10 years) | 1 |
Since 2005 (last 20 years) | 2 |
Descriptor
Academic Achievement | 2 |
High Schools | 2 |
Suburban Schools | 2 |
Achievement Gap | 1 |
Alienation | 1 |
Cheating | 1 |
Competition | 1 |
Credentials | 1 |
Disadvantaged | 1 |
Emotional Intelligence | 1 |
Ethnography | 1 |
More ▼ |
Author
Demerath, Peter | 2 |
Mattheis, Allison | 1 |
Publication Type
Books | 1 |
Journal Articles | 1 |
Reports - Descriptive | 1 |
Reports - Research | 1 |
Education Level
High Schools | 2 |
Secondary Education | 1 |
Audience
Location
Ohio | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
The Use of Feedback Mechanisms in Interpreting the Robustness of a Neoliberal Educational Assemblage
Demerath, Peter; Mattheis, Allison – Ethnography and Education, 2015
This article demonstrates how using feedback mechanisms or "loops" as heuristic devices can help ethnographers explain the interior logic, robustness and contradictions within complex educational assemblages. After reviewing the use of feedback mechanisms in the natural and social sciences, particularly practice theory, the article…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Heuristics, Neoliberalism, Social Class
Demerath, Peter – University of Chicago Press, 2009
Middle- and upper-middle-class students continue to outpace those from less privileged backgrounds. Most attempts to redress this inequality focus on the issue of access to financial resources, but as "Producing Success" makes clear, the problem goes beyond mere economics. In this eye-opening study, Peter Demerath examines a typical suburban…
Descriptors: High Schools, Work Ethic, High School Students, Achievement Gap