Essays about: "parental education"

Showing result 36 - 40 of 92 essays containing the words parental education.

  1. 36. Factors associated with illegal drug use in South Africa: A qualitative literature review

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS)

    Author : Rummage Isaac; [2019]
    Keywords : Criminology; Illegal drug use; South Africa.;

    Abstract : AbstractThis study provides a comprehensive literature review of the recent peer-review and journal articles pertaining to illegal drug use in South Africa. Potential articles pertaining to South African illicit drug use published between 1994 and April 2019 were identified through an exhaustive literature pursuit. READ MORE

  3. 37. FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE 9th GRADE STUDENTS’ HIGHER EDUCATION ASPIRATIONS IN SWEDEN The role of gender, parental nationality, parental education and academic self-concept

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik och specialpedagogik

    Author : Elpis Grammatikopoulou; [2018-04-24]
    Keywords : higher education aspirations; gender; parental nationality; parental education; theoretical self-concept; aesthetic self-concept;

    Abstract : Aim: The purpose of this study is to explore the influence of gender, parental nationality, parental education, and academic self-concept on the HE aspirations of 9th grade students in Sweden. Theory: The various factors influencing HE aspirations—the extent to which 9th grade students regard future HE learning as a reasonable forecast for themselves—are here considered as indicators of social capital, as value that accrues through one’s social ties and achievements. READ MORE

  4. 38. School Choice and Private Schooling : A comparative case-study between Greece and Sweden

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik och didaktik

    Author : Alexandra Farazouli; [2018]
    Keywords : School choice; private education; quality education; Greece; Sweden; Human Capital theory; Human Rights theory; Capability approach;

    Abstract : Over the past three decades, privatization and school choice have been introduced and embodied in the vocabulary of several national education policies. Although free education has been constituted, private schooling has been steadily growing its presence over the last years in Greece and Sweden. READ MORE

  5. 39. Multidimensional Intergenerational Inequality: Resource and Gender Specificity : Intergenerational transmission of inequality in education, social class, and income attainment using a sibling correlations approach

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Max Thaning; [2018]
    Keywords : Socioeconomic background; social background; social origin; education; social class; income; sibling correlations; resource specificity; gender specificity; intergenerational transmission of inequality; multidimensional inequality.;

    Abstract : This study focuses on intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic resources in multiple dimensions and decomposes the influence of parents’ education, social class, and income in relation to the same outcomes for children as well as the unique impact of mothers and fathers on sons and daughters. In order to minimize measurement error in parental characteristics and life course bias for children, high quality Swedish administrative register data (spanning over 40 years) is utilized. READ MORE

  6. 40. Cash Equals Education? A Case Study of How a Scholarship to Highland Students in Ratanakiri, Cambodia Promotes Educational Participation

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Author : Maria Svensson; [2018]
    Keywords : scholarship; CCT; education; educational participation; upper secondary school; social protection; Cambodia; Ratanakiri; Highlanders; ethnic minority; UNICEF; qualitative research; case study; thematic analysis; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis was to explore how a scholarship distributed to upper secondary school students of ethnic minority in Ratanakiri, Cambodia has promoted educational participation. To do this, this thesis analysed students’ understanding of the value of education, obstacles to participation and how the scholarship has addressed these obstacles. READ MORE