Comparative Perspectives on School Segregation

ISBN-13: 9781032575544 / Twarda / 2023 / 126 str.

Opis

This book examines various aspects of school segregation and their complex interrelations with policy, structure, and context in diverse settings. It will be a resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of education.

Spis treści

1. School segregation: theoretical insights and future directions 2. Market models and segregation: examining mechanisms of student sorting 3. Does school socioeconomic composition matter more in some countries than others, and if so, why? 4. The impact of school choice on school (re)segregation: settler-colonialism, critical geography and Bourdieu 5. School segregation, inequality and trust in institutions: evidence from Santiago 6. School segregation in Rio de Janeiro: geographical, racial and historical dimension of a centre-periphery dynamic 7. Voluntary school fees in segregated public schools: how selective public schools turbo-charge inequity and funding gaps

O autorze

Laura B. Perry is Professor of Comparative Education and Education Policy at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia. Her research focuses on educational disadvantage and inequalities, especially as they appear between schools, and the systems, structures and policies that shape them.

Emma Rowe is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, Deakin University. She was a Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholar (2020) and is a recipient of the Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Grant (DECRA) 2021–2024. Her research is interested in policy and politics in education.

Christopher Lubienski is Professor of Education Policy at Indiana University, and a Fellow with the National Education Policy Center. His research focuses on education policy, reform, and the political economy of education, with a particular concern for issues of equity, access, and evidence use in policymaking.