School Choice, Ethnic Divisions, and Symbolic Boundaries

Informationen zum Autor Stefan Lund is Associate professor of Education, Assistant Dean of Teacher Education, and Director of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Linnaeus University, Sweden. He has conducted research on educational choice, educational markets, school sports, and childhood. He is theoretically and methodologically interested in research issues related to sociology of education, cultural sociology, ethnography and critical discourse analysis. Klappentext This book enriches empirical and theoretical understandings of how school choice and school segregation are generated by the construction and negotiation of ethnic divisions by placing emphasis on feelings of belonging and we-ness as important structuring forces that guide and restrict students' school choices. Zusammenfassung This book enriches empirical and theoretical understandings of how school choice and school segregation are generated by the construction and negotiation of ethnic divisions by placing emphasis on feelings of belonging and we-ness as important structuring forces that guide and restrict students' school choices. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Tables Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. The Study 3. School Choice and the Natural Science Program 4. Negotiating Academic Behavior and Social Manners 5. Concluding Remarks Notes References Index

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List of Tables Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. The Study 3. School Choice and the Natural Science Program 4. Negotiating Academic Behavior and Social Manners 5. Concluding Remarks Notes References Index

Product details

• Authors: S Lund, S. Lund, Stefan Lund
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.03.2015
• EAN: 9781137480064
• ISBN: 978-1-137-48006-4
• No. of pages: 108
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Migration, B, Educational Policy, Sociology of Education, Education, Culture, Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Migration, immigration & emigration, International and Comparative Education, Educational strategies & policy, Social research & statistics, Educational Policy and Politics, Education and state, Comparative education, International education, Educational sociology, Emigration and immigration, Education and sociology, Palgrave Education Collection, Human Migration