[g]germans are now asking themselves whether this way of doing things is fair,and whether it is working.although income is distributed relatively equally,opportunity is not.germany is one of the most rigid among the relatively advanced societies,says karl ulrich mayer,a sociologist at yale univers...
In 1979, sociologist Randall Collins coined the term “educational entrepreneur” to describe people like Terman: academic leaders who sought to expand the functions, funding, and prestige of their own institutions (Collins 2019 [1979]). Subsequent educational sociologists elaborated on this imagery of...
Emotions have not been regarded as very relevant in education processes, despite early sociologist underlining the importance of feelings in education. The... F Molina - 《Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology》 被引量: 5发表: 2012年 ...
I am not a “status-quo-monger”; I do not think that whatever just so happens to be at this moment is the best achievable – or that whatever societal forces produce is normative by the mere fact of it being produced, rather than something else. I think we could do much better and ...
This might in turn also make it easier for people with ID to themselves adopt a crip theoretical perspective and to really embrace that which has up until now been defined as a stigma. Developing new ways of looking at non-normative intellectual functionality and sexuality could contribute to ...
The English sociologistHerbert Spencerwas perhaps the most important popularizer ofscienceandphilosophyin the 19th century. Presenting a theory ofevolutionprior toCharles Darwin’sOn the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Spencer argued that all of life, including education, should take ...
In The Limits and Possibilities of Schooling (1993), the American sociologist Christopher Hurn proposed one method of evaluating education systems over time. Hurn identified the following set of relationships between variables: first, the correlation between adults’ educational attainment (years of ...
As I have argued before, we should instead see AI in education as a public problem. The sociologist Mike Ananny wrote an essay earlier this year suggesting that AI needs to be understood as a public concern in the same ways we treat the climate, the environment and – in fact – child...
A 2014 study of engineering students by sociologist Erin Cech finds evidence that the culture of engineering seems to weaken students’ beliefs in their professional.2In 2020, a cascade of headlines points to ways digital technologies are threatening justice, privacy, and democracy, and the political...
François Héran, a sociologist, anthropologist, demographer, and professor at the Collège de France, stated in a 2020 opinion piece in Le Monde: “Let us stop opposing republican principles to ethnic statistics. What is the use of brandishing our universalist ideals if we refuse to measure ...