Category Archives: Education
On SAGE Insight: Helping and Hindering Undergraduate Women’s STEM Motivation: Experiences with STEM Encouragement, STEM-Related Gender Bias, and Sexual Harassment
From Psychology of Women Quarterly ‘#MeToo and other feminist social movements have highlighted the prevalence of sexual harassment and gender-biased treatment, as well as how damaging they can be. Sexual harassment includes unwelcome or inappropriate sexual advances, while gender bias … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Gender & Sexuality, Psychology, SAGE Insight
Tagged family, motivation, peers, Science, sexism, sexual harassment, teachers
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On SAGE Insight: Impact of mental disorders on attendance at school
From Australian Journal of Education Regular attendance at school is recognised worldwide as a key component of engagement in schooling and an important pre-requisite for academic success. Mental disorders are among the most common and disabling conditions affecting children and … Continue reading
On SAGE Insight: Free access to 5 must-read articles to mark International Women’s Day
A selection of free journal articles to mark International Women’s Day 2019: “Man Cannot Exist Alone”: The Challenge of Health Care to Honor the Role of Womenin Society The Linacre Quarterly DOI: 10.1177/0024363918807684 A New Age for Media Coverage of … Continue reading
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On SAGE Insight: What Makes Learning Management Systems Effective for Learning?
From Journal of Educational Technology Systems The size and reach of the web have proliferated rapidly since its inception in 1989. Since then, the web has had a tremendous influence on what and how people do things. Today, it is … Continue reading
On SAGE Insight: The Matchmaking Activity: An Experiential Learning Exercise on Influencer Marketing for the Digital Marketing Classroom
From Journal of Marketing Education Influencer marketing is an emerging technological disruptor for marketing across a wide range of industries. Some brands in this industry have experienced “overnight success” by paying influencers (e.g., celebrities) to promote their products through social … Continue reading
On SAGE Insight: Open Education platforms: Theoretical ideas, digital operations and the figure of the open learner
From European Educational Research Journal Open Education (OE), a generic term for a collection of practices that seek to broaden the access to education through digital means, has gained increasing traction and popularity over the last years and from various … Continue reading
On SAGE Insight: Changing the Default to Support Open Access to Education Research
From Educational Researcher The Internet has revolutionized the way we share and access information, yet most scholarly journal literature remains locked behind paywalls for the average reader. Thus, practitioners and policymakers in fields like education are unable to access articles that would otherwise benefit … Continue reading
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Tagged educational policy, faculty development, policy analysis, research utilization, social justice
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On SAGE Insight: School life on the margins: Slovak Roma pupils negotiating education
From Race & Class Educationalist Chris Searle, in his 2017 article in this journal, drew attention to the ‘scourge of Roma school exclusion’ and highlighted the shocking number of pupils in Sheffield who were being educated outside of mainstream school … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Education, SAGE Insight
Tagged Basil Bernstein, Chris Searle, exclusions, language repertoire, Roma, schoolchildren, Slovak
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On SAGE Insight: Gender gaps in long-term earnings and retirement wealth: The effects of education and parenthood
From Journal of Industrial Relations Estimates of long-term earnings commonly use cross-sectional data to measure the average earnings of given groups of employees at different ages and so construct age earnings profiles for different groups of individuals. The approach has … Continue reading
Posted in Business & Management, Education, SAGE Insight
Tagged education, gender gaps, long-term earnings, parenthood, retirement wealth
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On SAGE Insight: Relative Education and the Advantage of a College Degree
From American Sociological Review Over the past 80 years, the United States experienced a dramatic increase in college enrollment and completion. In 1950, only 7.7 percent of people in the United States age 25 to 29 had a bachelor’s degree … Continue reading
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Tagged college, education, inequality, labor force, occupations, relative education effect, stratification, work
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On SAGE Insight: The Geography of Gender Inequality in International Higher Education
From Journal of Studies in International Education The internationalization of higher education results in 4.6 million students attending colleges and universities outside their home countries. In the United States and other countries, there is significant underrepresentation of women among inbound … Continue reading
On SAGE Insight: Children’s perceptions of the importance and value of reading
From Australian Journal of Education We may perhaps take for granted that the importance of reading is well understood by children, given the position of reading as a fundamental literacy skill, the regular practice of which is strongly associated with … Continue reading
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Tagged Attitudes, independent reading, Leisure time reading, mixed method approach, motivation, Reading
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On SAGE Insight: “It Was . . . the Word ‘Scrotum’ on the First Page”: Educators’ Perspectives of Controversial Literature
From Journal of Teacher Education Marking Banned Books Week 2018 In this study, authors explore the perceptions preservice teachers (PSTs) and school librarians have toward using challenged and banned books with K-12 readers. We seek to understand how preservice educators think … Continue reading
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Tagged discourse analysis, preservice teacher education, teacher beliefs
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