Constructing Educational Inequality

Author : Peter Foster,Roger Gomm,Martyn Hammersley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005-06-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135719135

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Constructing Educational Inequality by Peter Foster,Roger Gomm,Martyn Hammersley Pdf

The issue of educational opportunity has long been of public concern and a major focus for eduational research. As a result, there is now a substantial body of research findings in this field, both quantitative and qualitative.; This work relates to various levels of the educational system and to different categories of student, but particularly social class, gender, ethnicity and race. The central trend has been to find persisting inequalities despite reform at system, institutional and classroom levels. Furthermore, the educational system is frequently portrayed as playing a key role in reproducing wider social and economic inequalities.; This book examines the status of educational inequality as a social problem, explores the conceptual issues surrounding it, assesses a representative sample of recent research, and seeks to clarify the relevant methodological ground rules, thereby laying the basis for future research in the field.

Author : Peter Foster,Roger Gomm,Martyn Hammersley
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Education
ISBN : 075070389X

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Constructing Educational Inequality by Peter Foster,Roger Gomm,Martyn Hammersley Pdf

The issue of educational opportunity has long been of public concern and a major focus for eduational research. This work relates to various levels of the educational system and to different categories of student.

Author : Nichole Torpey-Saboe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319906294

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Measuring Education Inequality in Developing Countries by Nichole Torpey-Saboe Pdf

This book constructs a measure of education inequality using time-series cross-national data and utilizes real-world examples based on author interviews. It provides insights into how classic trade theory might be applied more broadly to generate expectations not only about income distribution, but also about investment in human capital. The project explores the ways in which global trends toward urbanization and democratization might be expected to impact education inequality. The author addresses contemporary issues in politics, such as growing income inequality, the backlash against globalization and free trade, and concerns that democratic institutions are elite-dominated and unresponsive to the needs of common citizens.

Author : Luisa Martín Rojo
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110226645

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Constructing Inequality in Multilingual Classrooms by Luisa Martín Rojo Pdf

In her groundbreaking and innovative study, the author takes us on a fascinating journey through some of Madrid's multilingual and multicultural schools and reveals the role played by linguistic practices in the construction of inequality through such processes as what she calls "de-capitalization" and "ethnicization". Through a critical sociolinguistic and discourse analysis of the data collected in an ethnographic study, the book shows the exclusion caused by monolingualizing tendencies and ideologies of deficit in education and society. The book opens a timely discussion of the management of diversity in multilingual and multicultural classrooms, both for countries with a long tradition of migration flows and for those where the phenomenon is relatively new, as is the case in Spain. This study of linguistic practices in the classroom makes clear the need to rethink some key linguistic concepts, such as practice, competence, discourse, and language, and to integrate different approaches in qualitative research. The volume is essential reading for students and researchers working in sociolinguistics, education and related areas, as well as for all teachers and social workers who deal with the increasing heterogeneity of our late modern societies in their work.

Author : Susanne Gannon,Robert Hattam,Wayne Sawyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351612548

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Resisting Educational Inequality by Susanne Gannon,Robert Hattam,Wayne Sawyer Pdf

Resisting Educational Inequality examines poverty, social exclusion and vulnerability in educational contexts at a time of rising inequality and when policy research suggests that such issues are being ignored or distorted within neoliberal logics. In this volume, leading scholars from Australia and across the UK examine these issues through three main focus areas: Mapping the damage: what are our explanations for the persistent nature of educational inequality? Resources for hope: what do we know about how educational engagement and success can be improved in schools serving vulnerable communities? Sustaining hope: how might we reframe research, policy and practice in the future? Using a range of theories and methodologies, including empirical and theory-building work as well as policy critique, this book opens innovative areas of thinking about the social issues surrounding educational practice and policy. By exploring different explanations and approaches to school change and considering how research, policy and practice might be reframed, this book moves systematically and insightfully through damage towards hope. In combining pedagogy, policy and experience, Resisting Educational Inequality will be a valuable resource for all researchers and students, policymakers and education practitioners.

Author : Donald B. Holsinger,W. James Jacob
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789048126521

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Inequality in Education by Donald B. Holsinger,W. James Jacob Pdf

Inequality in Education: Comparative and International Perspectives is a compilation of conceptual chapters and national case studies that includes a series of methods for measuring education inequalities. The book provides up-to-date scholarly research on global trends in the distribution of formal schooling in national populations. It also offers a strategic comparative and international education policy statement on recent shifts in education inequality, and new approaches to explore, develop and improve comparative education and policy research globally. Contributing authors examine how education as a process interacts with government finance policy to form patterns of access to education services. In addition to case perspectives from 18 countries across six geographic regions, the volume includes six conceptual chapters on topics that influence education inequality, such as gender, disability, language and economics, and a summary chapter that presents new evidence on the pernicious consequences of inequality in the distribution of education. The book offers (1) a better and more holistic understanding of ways to measure education inequalities; and (2) strategies for facing the challenge of inequality in education in the processes of policy formation, planning and implementation at the local, regional, national and global levels.

Author : Roy Nash
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317137689

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Explaining Inequalities in School Achievement by Roy Nash Pdf

Inequalities in educational opportunity have been a persistent feature of all school systems for generations, with conventional explanations of differences in educational attainment tending to be reduced to either quantitative or non-quantitative 'list' theories. In this groundbreaking book, Roy Nash argues that a realist framework for the sociological explanation of educational group differences can, and must be, constructed. A move to such an explanatory framework will allow us to take into account the social influences of early childhood development, the later emergence of social identities, and the nature of the social class impact of educational and career decision-making. By building on the critical analyses of the theories of Bourdieu, Boudon and Bernstein, this book makes a vital contribution to the current policy and theoretical debate about the causes of educational inequality.

Author : Elizabeth McGhee Hassrick,Stephen W. Raudenbush,Lisa Rosen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780226456652

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The Ambitious Elementary School by Elizabeth McGhee Hassrick,Stephen W. Raudenbush,Lisa Rosen Pdf

The challenge of overcoming educational inequality in the United States can sometimes appear overwhelming, and great controversy exists as to whether or not elementary schools are up to the task, whether they can ameliorate existing social inequalities and initiate opportunities for economic and civic flourishing for all children. This book shows what can happen when you rethink schools from the ground up with precisely these goals in mind, approaching educational inequality and its entrenched causes head on, student by student. Drawing on an in-depth study of real schools on the South Side of Chicago, Elizabeth McGhee Hassrick, Stephen W. Raudenbush, and Lisa Rosen argue that effectively meeting the challenge of educational inequality requires a complete reorganization of institutional structures as well as wholly new norms, values, and practices that are animated by a relentless commitment to student learning. They examine a model that pulls teachers out of their isolated classrooms and places them into collaborative environments where they can share their curricula, teaching methods, and assessments of student progress with a school-based network of peers, parents, and other professionals. Within this structure, teachers, school leaders, social workers, and parents collaborate to ensure that every child receives instruction tailored to his or her developing skills. Cooperating schools share new tools for assessment and instruction and become sites for the training of new teachers. Parents become respected partners, and expert practitioners work with researchers to evaluate their work and refine their models for educational organization and practice. The authors show not only what such a model looks like but the dramatic results it produces for student learning and achievement. The result is a fresh, deeply informed, and remarkably clear portrait of school reform that directly addresses the real problems of educational inequality.

Author : Roy Nash
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781409492337

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Explaining Inequalities in School Achievement by Roy Nash Pdf

Inequalities in educational opportunity have been a persistent feature of all school systems for generations, with conventional explanations of differences in educational attainment tending to be reduced to either quantitative or non-quantitative 'list' theories. In this groundbreaking book, Roy Nash argues that a realist framework for the sociological explanation of educational group differences can, and must be, constructed. A move to such an explanatory framework will allow us to take into account the social influences of early childhood development, the later emergence of social identities, and the nature of the social class impact of educational and career decision-making. By building on the critical analyses of the theories of Bourdieu, Boudon and Bernstein, this book makes a vital contribution to the current policy and theoretical debate about the causes of educational inequality.

Author : James Carrier
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1986-07-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780313253966

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Learning Disability by James Carrier Pdf

This book was written for sociologists concerned with education, but should be read by anyone interested in learning disability as a concept, either from a practical or theoretical standpoint. It is especially recommended for special educators and other professionals concerned with children who experience difficulties in school learning, as well as for the parents of such children. . . . Carrier has written an intelligent, well-documented, and important book that should provoke a great deal of controversy for some time to come. Contemporary Sociology James G. Carrier presents a detailed historical description of the social and educational assumptions integral to the idea of learning disability. Drawing upon the works of leading authorities in the field, Carrier addresses a number of questions from an essentially Marxist perspective. His discussion revolves around the way in which social order structures reality, how that structured reality affects daily social practices, and how this, in turn, perpetuates the social structure which conditioned the practices in the first place. Dividing his discussion into three parts, Carrier first examines the contrast between structure and process in the theory of learning disability espoused by Burke and Boudrieu, moves on to consider the structural approach to the content and meaning of the theory, and finally provides a processualist consideration of why different groups came to support it. Finally, the author presents some of his conclusions about the conflict he has described.

Author : Michelle Jackson
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804784481

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Determined to Succeed? by Michelle Jackson Pdf

In many countries, concern about socio-economic inequalities in educational attainment has focused on inequalities in test scores and grades. The presumption has been that the best way to reduce inequalities in educational outcomes is to reduce inequalities in performance. But is this presumption correct? Determined to Succeed? is the first book to offer a comprehensive cross-national examination of the roles of performance and choice in generating inequalities in educational attainment. It combines in-depth studies by country specialists with chapters discussing more general empirical, methodological, and theoretical aspects of educational inequality. The aim is to investigate to what extent inequalities in educational attainment can be attributed to differences in academic performance between socio-economic groups, and to what extent they can be attributed to differences in the choices made by students from these groups. The contributors focus predominantly on inequalities related to parental class and parental education.

Author : James E. Rosenbaum
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015023647707

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Making Inequality by James E. Rosenbaum Pdf

Author : Richard Teese,Stephen Lamb,Marie Duru-Bellat
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 981 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-06-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781402059162

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International Studies in Educational Inequality, Theory and Policy by Richard Teese,Stephen Lamb,Marie Duru-Bellat Pdf

Inequality is a marked and persistent feature of education systems, both in the developed and the developing worlds. Major gaps in opportunity and in outcomes have become more critical than in the past, thanks to the knowledge economy and globalization. The pursuit of equity as a goal of public policy is examined in this book through a series of national case-studies. The book covers many different global contexts from the wealthiest to some of the poorest nations on earth. It therefore offers a broad range of different theoretical and methodological approaches, and brings together extensive international experience in equity policy.

Author : Edward P. St. John,Phyllis Kreger Stillman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105129809039

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Confronting Educational Inequality by Edward P. St. John,Phyllis Kreger Stillman Pdf

Author : Wisdom, Sherrie,Leavitt, Lynda,Bice, Cynthia
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781522591108

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Handbook of Research on Social Inequality and Education by Wisdom, Sherrie,Leavitt, Lynda,Bice, Cynthia Pdf

In comparing one public school to another, discussions frequently include talk concerning the socioeconomics of a school or district, which then leads to talk about the advantages that one socioeconomic setting has over another. Educators tend to agree that low academic achievement frequently associated with a low socioeconomic status is a characteristic difficult to resolve for a population of school children. The Handbook of Research on Social Inequality and Education is a critical reference source that provides insights into social influences on school and educational settings. Featuring an array of topics including online learning, social mobility, and teacher preparation, this book is excellent for educational leaders, educational researchers, teachers, academicians, administrators, instructional designers, and teacher preparation programs.