The Rural Appalachian Low-Income Male: Changing Role in a Changing Family

In this paper, I reflect on the changing role of higher education by focusing on the case of online education. I consider the promise of online education as a means to mitigate educational inequalities. Based on the available empirical evidence, I argue that this promise is unlikely to be fulfilled because online education is not well-suited to develop the social and emotional skills needed by students from low-income and minority backgrounds for social mobility. Nonetheless, the changing social, political, and economic role of the university should lead us to revise the classical vision of the university’s aims. I argue that the aim of the university should be sensitive to its new social, political, and economic role without falling prey to coarse pragmatism. This third approach delicately navigates the middle-ground between idealism and pragmatism.

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Financier or Facilitator? The Changing Role of the IMF in Low‐Income Countries

Finance, Development, and the IMF ◽

10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199239863.003.0006 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 113-134 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Graham Bird ◽

Dane Rowlands

Keyword(s):

Low Income ◽

Low Income Countries ◽

Changing Role ◽

The Imf

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Neoliberal urban transformations in the arab city

Environnement urbain ◽

10.7202/1027729ar ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 7 ◽

pp. 99-115 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Rami Farouk Daher

Keyword(s):

Low Income ◽

Arab World ◽

Spatial Politics ◽

Housing Projects ◽

Class Project ◽

Role Of The State ◽

Urban Transformations ◽

Changing Role ◽

The City

This research represents a discursive-comparative analysis aiming to understand the current urban neoliberal condition in the Arab world in terms of the circulating patterns of urban transformation. The research introduces and suggests a discursive framework in which various neoliberal projects could be examined and evaluated against one or more of the following indicators: urban lifestyle, emancipatory neoliberal discourse, claims to social sustainability, socio-spatial politics and dynamics, governance and place management, changing role of the state, and circulation of neoliberal practices. The research applies and benefits from a reconciliation between neo-Marxist theories of political economy and poststructuralist approaches related to the art of governance. However, in doing so it relies mostly on one body of theory, namely, neo-Marxist theories considering neoliberalism as a class project of social exclusion. The framework of analysis is applied to the following three case studies in Amman: high-end business towers, gated upper-middle class communities, and low-income housing projects. In general, these projects, despite their emancipatory rhetoric, led to geographies of inequality and urban disparities within the city of Amman.

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The changing role of low-income minority parents in their children's schooling

New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education ◽

10.1002/ace.36719904808 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 1990 (48) ◽

pp. 67-80

Author(s):

Frank E. Nardine

Keyword(s):

Low Income ◽

Minority Parents ◽

Children's Schooling ◽

Changing Role

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THE MINIMUM INCOME SCHEME REFORM IN LITHUANIA

Ekonomika ◽

10.15388/ekon.2014.93.5038 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 93 (4) ◽

pp. 24-40

Author(s):

Romas Lazutka

Keyword(s):

Low Income ◽

Social Assistance ◽

Three Dimensions ◽

Poor People ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Minimum Income ◽

Recent Reform ◽

Families With Children ◽

Changing Role

The article reviews the current social assistance scheme in Lithuania and its recent reform. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the scheme in three dimensions: coverage of poor people, adequacy of benefit amounts, and social assistance reconciliation with work incentives. The analysis of the minimum income protection reform is based mainly on the data from Survey of Income and Living Conditions and Administrative Data from the Ministry of Social Security and Labour. The paper discovers the changing role of the minimum income scheme in the context of an economic cycle, its targeting to low-income strata of the population and an adequate amount at least for families with children. However, the growing incentives of local authorities to reallocate funds envisaged for social assistance to other needs can erode the scheme. The article ends with several recommendations to policy makers.

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The changing role of the dental dean

Journal of Dental Education ◽

10.1002/j.0022-0337.1969.33.3.tb00189.x ◽

1969 ◽

Vol 33 (3) ◽

pp. 355-360

Author(s):

JA DiBiaggio

Keyword(s):

Changing Role

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A View of the Lexical–Grammatical Link in Young Latinos With Specific Language Impairment Using Language-Specific and Conceptual Measures

Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research ◽

10.1044/2019_jslhr-l-18-0315 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 62 (6) ◽

pp. 1775-1786 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Lucía I. Méndez ◽

Gabriela Simon-Cereijido

Keyword(s):

Low Income ◽

Language Impairment ◽

Specific Language Impairment ◽

L2 Acquisition ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Specific Language ◽

Vocabulary Skills ◽

In The Beginning ◽

Study Participants ◽

L1 And L2

Purpose This study investigated the nature of the association of lexical–grammatical abilities within and across languages in Latino dual language learners (DLLs) with specific language impairment (SLI) using language-specific and bilingual measures. Method Seventy-four Spanish/English–speaking preschoolers with SLI from preschools serving low-income households participated in the study. Participants had stronger skills in Spanish (first language [L1]) and were in the initial stages of learning English (second language [L2]). The children's lexical, semantic, and grammar abilities were assessed using normative and researcher-developed tools in English and Spanish. Hierarchical linear regressions of cross-sectional data were conducted using measures of sentence repetition tasks, language-specific vocabulary, and conceptual bilingual lexical and semantic abilities in Spanish and English. Results Results indicate that language-specific vocabulary abilities support the development of grammar in L1 and L2 in this population. L1 vocabulary also contributes to L2 grammar above and beyond the contribution of L2 vocabulary skills. However, the cross-linguistic association between vocabulary in L2 and grammar skills in the stronger or more proficient language (L1) is not observed. In addition, conceptual vocabulary significantly supported grammar in L2, whereas bilingual semantic skills supported L1 grammar. Conclusions Our findings reveal that the same language-specific vocabulary abilities drive grammar development in L1 and L2 in DLLs with SLI. In the early stages of L2 acquisition, vocabulary skills in L1 also seem to contribute to grammar skills in L2 in this population. Thus, it is critical to support vocabulary development in both L1 and L2 in DLLs with SLI, particularly in the beginning stages of L2 acquisition. Clinical and educational implications are discussed.

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