1st Edition

Comparative Perspectives on School Segregation

Edited By Laura B. Perry, Emma Rowe, Christopher Lubienski Copyright 2024
136 Pages
by Routledge

136 Pages
by Routledge

136 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines various aspects of school segregation and their complex interrelations with policy, structure, and context in diverse settings. It advances the understanding of the causes, processes and consequences of school segregation around the globe.  Topics examined include student sorting between schools in marketized systems; the effects of school socioeconomic segregation on... Read more

1.School segregation: theoretical insights and future directions
Laura B. Perry, Emma Rowe and Christopher Lubienski

2.Market models and segregation: examining mechanisms of student sorting
Christopher Lubienski, Laura B. Perry, Jina Kim and Yusuf Canbolat

3.Does school socioeconomic composition matter more in some countries than others, and if so, why?
Michael G. Sciffer, Laura B. Perry and Andrew McConney

4.The impact of school choice on school (re)segregation: settler-colonialism, critical geography and Bourdieu
Ee-Seul Yoon, Victoria Grima, Corinne E. Barrett DeWiele and Lucas Skelton

5.School segregation, inequality and trust in institutions: evidence from Santiago
Andres Molina and Stephen Lamb

6.School segregation in Rio de Janeiro: geographical, racial and historical dimensions of a centre-periphery dynamic
Joel Windle

7.Voluntary school fees in segregated public schools: how selective public schools turbo-charge inequity and funding gaps
Emma Rowe and Laura B. Perry

Biography

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.