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Part of the book series: Contemporary Approaches to Research in Learning Innovations (CARL)
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This volume addresses questions that lie at the core of research into education. It examines the way in which the institutional embeddedness and the social and ethnic composition of students affect educational performance, skill formation, and behavioral outcomes. It discusses the manner in which educational institutions accomplish social integration. It poses the question of whether they can reduce social inequality, – or whether they even facilitate the transformation of heterogeneity into social inequality. Divided into five parts, the volume offers new insights into the many factors, processes and policies that affect performance levels and social inequality in educational institutions. It presents current empirical work on social processes in educational institutions and their outcomes. While its main focus is on the primary and secondary level of education and on occupational training, the book also presents analyses of institutional effects on transitions from vocational training into tertiary educational institutions in an interdisciplinary and internationally comparative approach.
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Conceptual and Theoretical Underpinnings
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Evidence from Empirical Research Studies
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Non-cognitive Skills and Factors in Educational Attainment
Editors: Myint Swe Khine, Shaljan Areepattamannil
Series Title: Contemporary Approaches to Research in Learning Innovations
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-591-3
Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-591-3Published: 28 July 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 446
Topics: Education, general