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Educational Trends is a textbook of articles and essays exclusively written to encourage and assist a variety of educational professionals in the field of education and cultural awareness. The materials and information provided in this text are meant to assist in university coursework as a supplemental reading aid. The book has been specifically designed for preschool teachers, professors, principals, school administrators, students, teachers and university personnel from many diverse discipl...

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Current tensions between the U.S. and Russia are at their highest since the end of the Cold War. In such circumstances, it is imperative to go beyond headlines and rhetoric and take a closer look at the texture of Russian and American societies. Childhood and Education in the United States and Russia provides a rich illustration of the social processes within these countries. Through an extensive interdisciplinary literature review and quantitative analyses of both national and international datasets, this book sheds light on three main areas. Firstly, it explores the extent to which the institution of education intersects with the institution of childhood in Russia and the U.S. Secondly, the author provides an illuminating study of how childhood is stratified by the social background into which a child is born in Russia and the U.S. Finally, this book gives new insight into how we observe the strengthening of children's agency, both in theoretical developments in sociology of education and childhood, and educational practice and parental strategies. By discussing education and childhood from a sociological perspective with a focus on similarities and differences by time and place, this book will prove an invaluable resource for students and researchers in the fields of Sociology of Education, Sociology of Childhood and International Education.

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"Donald Trump's election forced academics to confront the inadequacy of promoting social change through the traditional academic work of research, writing, and teaching. Scholars joined crowds of people who flooded the streets to protest the event. The present political moment recalls intellectual forbearers like Antonio Gramsci who, imprisoned during an earlier fascist era, demanded that intellectuals committed to justice "can no longer consist in eloquence ... but in active participation in practical life, as constructor, organizer, 'permanent persuader' and not just a simple orator" (Gramsci, 1971, p. 10). Indeed, in an era of corporate media and "alternative facts," academics committed to justice cannot simply rely on disseminating new knowledge, but must step out of the ivory tower and enter the streets as activists. The Activist Academic serves as a guide for merging activism into academia. Following the journey of two academics, the book offers stories, frameworks and methods for how scholars can marry their academic selves, involved in scholarship, teaching and service, with their activist commitments to justice, while navigating the lived realities of raising families and navigating office politics. This volume invites academics across disciplines to enter into a dialogue about how to take knowledge to the streets."--

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Weite soziale Aufstiege sind selten, auch in der Wissenschaft. Wie aber lassen sich solche Aufstiege soziologisch erklären und welche Erfahrungen machen Professor:innen niedriger Herkunftsklassen? Diese Fragen erforscht Frerk Blome in einer vergleichenden Studie von akademischen Karrieren in der Rechts- und Erziehungswissenschaft anhand von autobiografisch-narrativen Interviews mit Universitätsprofessor:innen kontrastierender Klassenherkunft. Damit wendet er sich einem kaum untersuchten Gegenstand zu, denn obwohl die Universitätsprofessur als Schlüsselposition im Hochschulbereich gilt, wurde sie mit Blick auf klassenspezifische Ungleichheiten und soziale Aufwärtsmobilität bisher kaum untersucht.

Educational sociology.