Making Sense of School Choice - Politics, Policies, Practice Under Conditions of Cultural Diversity

Zusatztext "This book received not one! but two of TASA's book awards in 2016: the Raewyn Connell Prize for the best first book in Australian sociology and the Stephen Crook Memorial Prize for the best book in Australian sociology. The awards are well deserved. ? for anyone with an interest in education! social inclusion and social justice! this book offers a profound and important critique of our current system." (Christina Ho! Journal of Sociology! Vol. 53 (1)! 2015) Informationen zum Autor Joel A. Windle is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities at the Federal University of Ouro Preto, Brazil, and Associate Senior Researcher at the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia. Klappentext Making Sense of School Choice explains why school choice fails to deliver on its promise to meet the needs of culturally diverse populations, even in one of the world's most marketized education systems. Windle offers fresh insights into the transnational processes involved in producing educational inequalities. Zusammenfassung Making Sense of School Choice explains why school choice fails to deliver on its promise to meet the needs of culturally diverse populations! even in one of the world's most marketized education systems. Windle offers fresh insights into the transnational processes involved in producing educational inequalities. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Choice, Equity, and Diversity2. School Choice as Policy Regime and Cultural Ideal3. Socially Restricted Choice in Multicultural Neighborhoods4. Socially Exposed Schooling: The Majority Experience5. The Meaning of Choice for Schools: Curriculum and Market Hierarchies6. The Many Lives of School Choice: Common Sense, Coercion and Control7. Towards Democratic Schooling

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"This book received not one, but two of TASA's book awards in 2016: the Raewyn Connell Prize for the best first book in Australian sociology and the Stephen Crook Memorial Prize for the best book in Australian sociology. The awards are well deserved. ... for anyone with an interest in education, social inclusion and social justice, this book offers a profound and important critique of our current system." (Christina Ho, Journal of Sociology, Vol. 53 (1), 2015)

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• Authors: Joel A Windle, Joel A. Windle
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2015
• EAN: 9781137483522
• ISBN: 978-1-137-48352-2
• No. of pages: 198
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Political sociology; B, Educational Policy, Sociology of Education, Education, Sociology, Administration, Organization and Leadership, International and Comparative Education, Organization and Leadership, Educational strategies & policy, Social research & statistics, Educational Policy and Politics, Education and state, Education Policy, Comparative education, International education, Educational sociology, School management and organization, Educational administration & organization, School administration, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Education and sociology