Documenting mobility

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoff Payne
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Child Poverty ◽  
White Paper ◽  
Education Students ◽  
The Social ◽  
Conservative Policy ◽  
Cherry Picking ◽  
Independent Commission

While mobility was the sole concern of recent politics, its importance can be gauged from official documents. These include Labour’s White Paper New Opportunities (2009); the Liberal Democrats’ ‘Independent Commission on Social Mobility’ (2009); Conservative policy papers Building Skills, Transforming Lives (2008) and Through the Glass Ceiling(2008); the Coalition’s Opening Doors, Breaking Barriers: a strategy for social mobility (2011) and White Paper Higher Education: Students at the Heart of the System (2011), and the Conservatives’ Fulfilling Our Potential (2015); plus reports from the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission (‘SMCPC’), the All-party Parliamentary Group on Social Mobility (2012), and briefings like the Cabinet Office Strategy Unit’s Getting on, getting ahead (2008). A review of these reveals wrong technical definitions, cherry-picking of research evidence, and unwarranted assumptions about early life intervention as a mobility facilitator.

scholarly journals ALTERNANCE IN THE FORMATION OF COUNTRYSIDE EDUCATORS: LOOKING FOR MARKERS IN THE ACADEMIC PRODUCTIONS AND SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS OF EDUCATION STUDENTS

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (26) ◽  
pp. 339-350
Author(s):  
Josiane das Graças Carvalho ◽  
Lourdes Helena Da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Rural Education ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Academic Production ◽  
National Movement ◽  
The Social ◽  
Rural Teaching

The Education in the Countryside is part of a national movement that, starred by collective individuals of the countryside, has conquered several social, political and academic accomplishments. Among them, the Program of Support to Higher Education in Countryside Teaching – PROCAMPO, which has its origins in the fights and claims of social movements, allowed the creation of 42 new courses of Education in Rural Teaching in different Brazilian Higher Education Institutions. These courses work under Alternance training, between Time-School and Time-Community, contributing to the expansion, in our society, of the Formation by Alternance in the Higher Education, particularly in the Rural Education Graduation Courses, constituting a very recent phenomenon in the Brazilian Universities. Aiming to find a better comprehension about this educative phenomenon, the present paper has the purpose of presenting an overview of the national academic production about the alternance in the courses of formation of countryside educators, analyzing the social representations of alternance built by Rural Education students of the Federal University of Viçosa, looking for advance makers, challenges and perspectives in this pedagogical dynamic in the Higher Educaction.       

The Arkansas Lottery Scholarship Act

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-136
Author(s):  
Kristopher D. Copeland ◽  
Ketevan Mamiseishvili
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Social Constructions ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Target Populations ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
The Social ◽  
Lottery Scholarship

State lottery policies have been created to generate additional funds to support public initiatives, such as higher education scholarships. Through 18 participant interviews and document analysis, this study examined how decision makers in Arkansas socially constructed citizens while forming lottery policy. The social construction of target populations theory provides a framework for better understanding how social constructions became embedded into the policy design process. Participants noted that beneficiaries included higher education students and the retail and vendor community. In addition, discussion centered on burdens being placed on people who derive from low income and people who have gambling addiction.

scholarly journals Social Mobility in the UK's Higher Education Sector

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Jamie P. Halsall ◽  
Elizabeth F. Caldwell
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
Teaching Excellence ◽  
Social Barriers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Education And Employment

Social mobility is at the forefront of the British Government's plans to improve the lives of the most deprived groups in society. Since the election of the New Labour government in May 1997, consecutive governments have championed the concept of social mobility. The fundamental aim of social mobility is to tackle social barriers for disadvantaged groups in education and employment. However, within the social sciences there has been a lack of critical discussion regarding the theorisation of social mobility within the context of higher education (HE). In recent times higher education research has instead had a greater focus on pedagogy. The aim of this review is to critically explore past and current debates on social mobility, and the importance the concept has in the higher education sector. In this paper special reference will be made to the new UK government higher education policy on the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF).

scholarly journals FORMATION OF SOCIAL COMPETENCE OF TEACHING STAFF IN THE MODERN EDUCATIONAL SPACE

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (51) ◽  
Author(s):  
Heorgii Finin
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Social Competence ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Know How ◽  
The Social

The article substantiates the importance of forming the social competence of teachers. It was found that modern society needs specialists who know how to socialize in a fleeting society, people who are creative, active, competitive, competent, capable of change, with flexible critical thinking, to provide socio-pedagogical support of socialization, to form key and subject competencies of general secondary and higher education students.

Social Mobility in Chilean Youth and Their Parents: A Generational Analysis from the Perspective of Social Reproduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 0094582X2093910
Author(s):  
Luis Miguel Rodrigo ◽  
Mauricio Oyarzo
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Educación Superior ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
Educacion Superior ◽  
The Social ◽  
Life Cycle Effects

Recent studies on Chile agree that the country’s youth enjoy greater social mobility than previous generations. This has been attributed either to their greater access to higher education or to life-cycle effects on occupation. A test of these two hypotheses by estimating the socioeconomic positions of four generations of Chileans using a model of analysis based on the social reproduction paradigm shows that younger generations of Chileans have a lower level of social inheritance than the rest of the population only during their initial years in the labor market. Therefore, the greater social mobility observed in them is temporary and is explained by life-cycle effects on occupation. Estudios recientes sobre Chile coinciden en que la actual juventud chilena goza de una mayor movilidad social que las generaciones anteriores. Esto se ha atribuido a su mayor acceso a la educación superior o a los efectos del ciclo de vida en la ocupación. Aquí se examinan estas dos hipótesis a partir de una aproximación en torno a las posiciones socioeconómicas de cuatro generaciones chilenas. Se utiliza un modelo analítico asentado en el paradigma de la reproducción social, el cual nos muestra que las generaciones más jóvenes tienen un grado de herencia social más bajo que el resto de la población tan sólo durante sus primeros años como participantes en el mercado laboral. Por lo tanto, su mayor movilidad social es temporal y se explica a partir de los efectos del ciclo de vida en la ocupación.

Social Mobility in the UK's Higher Education Sector

2021 ◽  
pp. 1662-1673
Author(s):  
Jamie P. Halsall ◽  
Elizabeth F. Caldwell
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
Teaching Excellence ◽  
Social Barriers ◽  
Disadvantaged Groups ◽  
The Social ◽  
Education And Employment

Social mobility is at the forefront of the British Government's plans to improve the lives of the most deprived groups in society. Since the election of the New Labour government in May 1997, consecutive governments have championed the concept of social mobility. The fundamental aim of social mobility is to tackle social barriers for disadvantaged groups in education and employment. However, within the social sciences there has been a lack of critical discussion regarding the theorisation of social mobility within the context of higher education (HE). In recent times higher education research has instead had a greater focus on pedagogy. The aim of this review is to critically explore past and current debates on social mobility, and the importance the concept has in the higher education sector. In this paper special reference will be made to the new UK government higher education policy on the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF).

Developing epistemic impartiality to deliver on justice in higher education South Africa

2021 ◽  
pp. 174619792110486
Author(s):  
Siseko H Kumalo
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
White Paper ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Institutional Autonomy ◽  
Public Accountability ◽  
Institutional Governance ◽  
Epistemic Justice ◽  
The Social

In South Africa, the scholarship of epistemic justice has taken on an historical gaze with higher education framed as a social institution that might ameliorate the historical traumas of colonialism. Undoing the legacies of colonialism has been framed as the democratisation of the knowledge project. Using the White Paper 3 of 1997 that posits academic freedom, institutional autonomy and public accountability as fundamental to institutional governance, in part I of this analysis I broadened public accountability to include the social, political and economic factors that inhibit or act as catalyst to the attainment of educational desire. In this second part publication, I am interested in developing and proposing epistemic impartiality. This concept is developed from Mitova’s proposition of ‘decolonising knowledge without too much relativism’, which ultimately fosters epistemic justice through rigorously scrutinising each epistemic tradition. My suggestion is that epistemic impartiality enables dialogue between divergent traditions.

scholarly journals Has Migration Been Beneficial for Migrants and Their Children?

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolina V. Zuccotti ◽  
Harry B. G. Ganzeboom ◽  
Ayse Guveli
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Labor Market Outcomes ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
The Social ◽  
Western European ◽  
First And Second Generation

The study compares the social mobility and status attainment of first-and second-generation Turks in nine Western European countries with those of Western European natives and with those of Turks in Turkey. It shows that the children of low-class migrants are more likely to acquire a higher education than their counterparts in Turkey, making them more educationally mobile. Moreover, they successfully convert this education in the Western European labor market, and are upwardly mobile relative to the first generation. When comparing labor market outcomes of second generations relative to Turks in Turkey, however, the results show that the same level of education leads to a higher occupation in Turkey. The implications of these findings are discussed.

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