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Direct linkPaterson, Lindsay – Oxford Review of Education, 2022
The conclusion of recent research on the relationship between students' school curriculum and their opportunities to enter higher education has generally been that curricular differentiation is a further dimension of social stratification, and that it has become a mechanism of effectively maintained inequality, in the sense defined by Lucas. The…
Descriptors: Correlation, Educational History, Educational Opportunities, Higher Education
Paterson, Lindsay; Calvin, Catherine; Deary, Ian J. – Oxford Review of Education, 2015
Newly available survey data allow the investigation of the educational and employment opportunities open to Roman Catholics in Scotland in the mid-20th century. Previous research has shown that Catholic disadvantage in education and the labour market in the early 20th century had weakened or vanished by the end of the century, and that the main…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, Educational Opportunities, Employment Opportunities
Paterson, Lindsay; Pattie, Alison; Deary, Ian J. – Oxford Review of Education, 2011
Newly accessible data from the Scottish Mental Survey 1947 are used to investigate the legacy in the 1950s of reforms to Scottish secondary schooling in the first four decades of the 20th century. These reforms had sought to extend opportunity for post-primary education beyond the children of the professional middle class who had formed the…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Age, Foreign Countries, Social Class
Iannelli, Cristina; Gamoran, Adam; Paterson, Lindsay – Oxford Review of Education, 2011
A pressing question about the expansion of higher education is whether it tends to be inclusive, in the sense of bringing in larger proportions of persons from disadvantaged backgrounds, or diversifying, in that higher education tends to differentiate as it expands, or both, by bringing more persons into an increasingly stratified system of higher…
Descriptors: Enrollment Trends, Higher Education, Disadvantaged, Foreign Countries
Paterson, Lindsay – Oxford Review of Education, 2009
It is widely agreed that formal learning can influence people's social attitudes and can encourage them to take part in civic activities. Less investigated, however, has been the question of whether these effects flow from any kind of education, or whether particular subjects of study are more relevant to civic values than others. The 1958 and…
Descriptors: Social Attitudes, Longitudinal Studies, Cohort Analysis, Educational Benefits
Bond, Ross; Paterson, Lindsay – Oxford Review of Education, 2005
This paper examines the degree and nature of universities' interaction with their communities from the perspectives of individual academics. It considers whether academic values and practice tend toward a "detached" or "universalist" perspective in which location is largely redundant and any perceived "community" has…
Descriptors: Interaction, School Community Relationship, Higher Education, College Role
