As the world turns: Higher education for democratic participation or status quo elitism?

Friday, August 3, 2012: 9:00 AM-10:30 AM

APT 10 (Faculty of Economics)

RC04 Sociology of Education (host committee)

Language: English

Session Organizers:

Walter ALLEN, University of California, Los Angeles, USA and Andrey REZAEV, St. Petersburg State University, Russia

Co-chairs:

Walter ALLEN, University of California, Los Angeles, USA and Andrey REZAEV, St. Petersburg State University, Russia

421.1

Tertiary institutional transformation for minority women in STEM education
Florence BONNER, Howard University, USA, USA

421.2

Higher education and the role of family background: Reproduction of the social structure?
Gabriela PLOTNO, Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

421.3

Higher education and the social impact of the postgraduate studies in a Mexican university (Oral)
Anita HIRSCH, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico

421.4

Es la universidad una garantía de futuro? Los efectos de la educación superior en licenciados de sectores populares
Gabriel TOLOSA CHACON, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia

421.5

Access to higher education: Fairness, innovation, and the common good in local perspective
Mei-Ling LIN, National Open University, Taiwan, Taiwan

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