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The Role of Social Capital/Guanxi in Students’ Decision-Making about Postgraduate Education in China: An Explorative Case Study
This paper explores how the concept of social capital developed by Bourdieu and Coleman as well as the Chinese concept of guanxi (关系) or...
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Capital Campaigns at Public Regional Universities
In an era of the endless capital campaign at large, public universities and private liberal arts colleges, public regional universities cannot...
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Institutionalisation of Employability Capital in Employment Markets
Cai and Tomlinson’s (A renewed analytical framework for understanding employers’ perceptions of graduate employability: Integration of capital and...
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How does family cultural capital influence the individuals’ development? —case study about left-behind children in China
This study provides an empirical investigation into the lives of kindergarten-aged left-behind children (LBC) who could not migrate with their...
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Using Bourdieu's Concepts of Social Field, Habitus, and Capital for Employability-Related Research
Several studies have reported the implementation of similar graduate employability development initiatives across contexts. However, the experiences...
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Does school choice have implications for parents’ social capital and adolescents’ academic outcomes?
School choice has received national attention in the United States from policymakers and professionals as a way to improve parents’ social capital...
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The roles of public libraries in enhancing educational systems and social inclusion in Africa
Public libraries constitute an important part of social life and are crucial for supporting the educational system in any society. However, in many...
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“What’s High School Got to do With It?” Secondary School Composition, School-Wide Social Capital and Higher Education Enrollment
This study investigates whether the ethnic and socioeconomic composition of the secondary school affect higher education enrollment and program...
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Human Capital, Rights, and Capabilities: Equitable Learning Design Based on Justice
The proposed chapter will explore how learning design can lead to equitable learning based on three types of sociological constructs: human capital,...
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Professional Learning Supporting Multilingual Children’s Social and Emotional Development in Diverse Australian Early Childhood Education and Care Settings
This research examined the conditions under which codesigned approaches to educator professional learning in multilingual, birth to five settings...
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Teens online: how perceived social support influences the use of the Internet during adolescence
AbstractThis study analyses the role of social support in Internet use, focusing on when it leads to problematic or functional use in male and female...
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English Language Education and University Students’ Development of Human Capital
Human capital refers to the knowledge and skills acquired by students or graduates, which are a foundation of their employability and employment...
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Value in Education: Its Web of Social Forms
After introducing a radical notion of social form, with reference to the work of John Holloway and Werner Bonefeld, the chapter indicates how...
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Mathematics curriculum as a vehicle for democracy and social justice
Mathematics has for too long been considered a neutral subject and the teaching of mathematics apolitical. Yet, mathematics is a powerful tool for...
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Social Justice and Social Work
Social work has long been associated with social justice. In this chapter we explore the relationship between the two with a view to clarifying the...
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Examining how social networks influence women and under-represented minority students’ pursuit of engineering in university: when, who, and how?
BackgroundWomen and under-represented minority (URM) students continue to be under-represented in STEM and earn the lowest proportion of...
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Labor-Capital Relations and Labor Pay
With the marketization of labor and capital factors, labor-capital relations have gradually emerged and developed. The interests between the labor...
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Pre-service Teachers' Use of General Social Networking Sites Linked to Current Scenarios: Nature and Characteristics
Social networking sites form part of everyday life in classrooms at all educational levels. Within these, general social networking sites (GSNSs)...
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Comparative analysis of chemistry teaching in city center and suburban public schools in Brazil: how school reputation and social profile influence chemistry teaching and high school students’ performance in science
In this paper, we present our study into how teaching practices in chemistry are socially stratified under the center–suburban divide in a...