Essays about: "disadvantaged students"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 18 essays containing the words disadvantaged students.

  1. 1. Exploring foreign language teachers’ professional agency in Romanian Public Secondary schools.

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik och specialpedagogik

    Author : Camelia Dragomir; [2023-10-31]
    Keywords : teacher agency; ecological theory; foreign language teaching; accountability; professional development;

    Abstract : Aim: This research aims to explore how seven foreign language teachers in a few urban public secondary schools in Romania understand and enact their professional agency and how contextual factors support or constrain its achievement. The purpose is to understand the ways in which the participants’ teaching philosophies and experiences inform their awareness and achievement of agency, what they perceive as the available contextual resources within contextual constraints, and how that reflects in their beliefs and professional aspirations. READ MORE

  3. 2. Improving life situations through scholarship programs - The case of Tanzanian beneficiaries

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Innovationsteknik

    Author : Andrea Häger; Chatrine Carlberg; [2023]
    Keywords : Changemaker; East-Africa; Financial Support; Higher Education; Life Situation; Need-based Scholarship; Professional Life; Sub-Saharan Africa; Tanzania; University; Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : The fourth goal of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development regards Quality education, aiming to “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all". Globally, enrollment in university education is increasing. READ MORE

  4. 3. Can an intervention increase access to higher education for disadvantaged students? : Quasi-experimental evidence from Peru

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Nationalekonomi

    Author : Gloria Fatima Canales Carballido; [2023]
    Keywords : higher education; access; disadvantaged students; scholarship; Propensity Score Matching; impact evaluation; quasi-experiment;

    Abstract : Heterogeneity in the school education quality plays an important role for those who want to pursue a bachelor's degree in Peru since access to higher education is highly correlated with socioeconomic status. In that sense, an intervention for disadvantaged students took place for the first time in 2022 and was constrained to the assessment of a scholarship called “Beca 18”, the biggest scholarship that the public institution called PRONABEC addresses every year since 2012. READ MORE

  5. 4. Aiding the Educational Transition for Costa Rican Students to Secondary Education : A qualitative study

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik och didaktik

    Author : Emma Skoglund; [2023]
    Keywords : Educational transition; school dropout; lifelong learning;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to examine how students at disadvantaged schools in Costa Rica experience and cope with the educational transition between 6th and 7th grade. Furthermore, to analyse which are the major contributing factors and how to aid this passage for students at risk through the term, Lifelong learning. READ MORE

  6. 5. Aiding the Educational Transition for Costa Rican Students to Secondary Education : A qualitative study

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik och didaktik

    Author : Emma Skoglund; [2023]
    Keywords : Educational transition; school dropout; lifelong learning;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to examine how students at disadvantaged schools in Costa Rica experience and cope with the educational transition between 6th and 7th grade. Furthermore, to analyse which are the major contributing factors and how to aid this passage for students at risk through the term, Lifelong learning. READ MORE