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Kenway, Jane; Howard, Adam – Curriculum Inquiry, 2022
Elite universities are often believed to represent education's gold standard and to produce highly educated luminaries who rightfully take their places leading all the institutions that matter in societies across the world. We begin by explaining how this is so. Then we discuss what we call monster methodologies, suggesting why and how we employed…
Descriptors: Colleges, Foreign Countries, Land Settlement, Figurative Language
Farley, Lisa – Curriculum Inquiry, 2015
In this paper, I theorize fantasies of idealization at work in narratives of educational research. I take as an example one of the very first psychoanalytically oriented studies in the field: Marion Milner's, "The Human Problem in Schools," published in 1938. Evidence is drawn from Milner's published book as well as from the historical…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Psychiatry, Creativity, Correlation
Ayling, Pere – Curriculum Inquiry, 2015
Existing studies on the role of schooling in the formation and (re)production of elite identity have focused almost entirely on the reproduction strategies of Western elites. Consequently, the distinction strategies employed by non-western elite parents to maintain and/or advance their class positioning--via their children--have remained largely…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Advantaged, Qualitative Research, School Choice
Davies, Lynn – Curriculum Inquiry, 2014
This article begins from the premise that it is important to explore how people unlearn, as well as learn, specifically in terms of extremist or violent attitudes. It shows the implications of two aspects of complexity theory--turbulence and self-organisation--for educational practice and the fostering of a complex adaptive school, which can aid…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Peace, Democracy
Skelton, Christine; Francis, Becky – Curriculum Inquiry, 2011
The National Assessment of Educational Progress statistics show that boys are underachieving in literacy compared to girls. Attempts to redress the problem in various Global North countries and particularly Australia and the United Kingdom have failed to make any impact. However, there are boys who are doing well in literacy. The aim of this…
Descriptors: Social Class, National Competency Tests, Foreign Countries, Masculinity