Aspirations,education and inequality in England: insights from the Effective Provision of Pre-school,Primary and Secondary Education Project     

Will Baker  Pam Sammons  Iram Siraj-Blatchford  Kathy Sylva  Edward C. Melhuish  Brenda Taggart 《牛津教育评论》2013,39(5):525-542

Educational and occupational aspirations have become an important reference point in policy debates about educational inequality. Low aspirations are presented as a major barrier to closing educational attainment gaps and increasing levels of social mobility. Our paper contributes to this on-going debate by presenting data on the educational aspirations of students from the Effective Provision of Pre-School, Primary and Secondary Education Project in England. We analyse factors that help predict students holding high aspirations. Our findings reveal generally high aspirations across all students but also differences by income group and other background factors. We evaluate the significance of these findings for the existing literature and public policy discussions about the importance of raising educational aspirations. In particular, we question the way in which low aspirations are framed by policy-makers as a major problem in debates around educational inequality.  相似文献   

Easton Cowboys and Cowgirls: a ‘political’ sports club that is not political and ‘anarchist’ sports club that is not actually anarchist     

Will Simpson 《Sport in Society》2015,18(4):466-476

In this paper I offer an activist's own account of a grass-roots club I helped found in 1992 and I remain an active member of today. The Easton Cowboys and Cowgirls are an amateur sports club based in inner-city Bristol. We have not got our own ground and most people would not have heard of us. We play at the very lowest rung of UK mass participation sport – in the Sundays and Saturday leagues, on the muddy pitches and municipal sports grounds where week after week men and women run around, for their own enjoyment without expectation of financial gain of any sort. My aim is to explain why the Cowboys and Cowgirls are an extraordinary club, outlining some of the extraordinary things it has done, some of which reside beyond the imagination of most professional clubs. It is only now, 20 years after we first formed, that we can stand back and admire what we have achieved and appreciate the role we have played in developing a small but growing network of teams that stand at odds with the way society is organized and (to a certain extent) the mediated, poisoned world of professional sport.  相似文献   

Education for Indoctrination and Social Control     

Will Riggan 《Equity & Excellence in Education》2013,46(6):2-8

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Corporate communication in the new media environment: A survey of 150 corporate communication web sites     

Markus Will  Victor Porak 《媒体管理杂志》2013,15(3-4):195-201

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Professional Communication: a workshop for writers and editors. LA: MHWLG Seminar, 12 June 1992, Ciba Foundation,London.     

Will Podmore 《Health information and libraries journal》1992,9(3):110-111

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Will Morrisey 《Academic Questions》1992,6(1):54-66

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Editorial ‐The future of copyright     

Markus Will 《媒体管理杂志》2013,15(3):143-146

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A six‐month report on the personality development of a thirteen‐year‐old stuttering boy     

Nell Will 《Quarterly Journal of Speech》2013,99(1):88-95

THE PROSPECT OF RHETORIC. Edited by Lloyd F. Bitzer and Edwin Black. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice‐Hall, 1971; pp. xii+244. $7.95.  相似文献   

Book review of Media Research Techniques     

Anthony W. Will 《Mass Communication and Society》2013,16(3-4):193-194

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The effect of task structure on diffusion dynamics: Implications for diffusion curve and network-based analyses     

Will Hoppitt  Anne Kandler  Jeremy R. Kendal  Kevin N. Laland 《Learning & behavior》2010,38(3):243-251

Theoretical analyses within the broad field of social learning research give mixed conclusions on whether the shape of a diffusion curve can be used to infer that a learned trait increases through social or asocial learning. Here we explore how factors such as task structure (e.g., multiple-step tasks), task abandonment, subgoal learning, and neophobia affect the shape of the diffusion curve for both asocially learned and socially learned behavior. We demonstrate that, whereas social learning increases the likelihood of S-shaped curves, sigmoidal patterns can be generated by entirely asocial processes, and cannot be reliably interpreted as indicators of social learning. Our findings reinforce the view that diffusion curve analysis is not a reliable way of detecting social transmission. We also draw attention to the fact that task structure can similarly confound interpretation of network-based diffusion analyses, and suggest resolutions to this problem. Supplemental materials for this article may be downloaded from http://lb.psychonomic-journals.org/content/supplemental.  相似文献