In Growing Gaps, Paul Attewell and Katherine S. Newman bring together an impressive group of scholars to closely examine the relationship between inequality and education. Covering almost every continent, Growing Gaps provides an overarching and essential examination of who is actually able to benefit from economic growth and who, because of the educational demands it brings about, it shuts out.
In Growing Gaps, Paul Attewell and Katherine S. Newman bring together an impressive group of scholars to closely examine the relationship between inequality and education. Covering almost every continent, Growing Gaps provides an overarching and essential examination of who is actually able to benefit from economic growth and who, because of the educational demands it brings about, it shuts out.
Paul Attewell is a Professor of Sociology who teaches in the doctoral programs in sociology and in urban education at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His most recent book, co-authored with David Lavin, was Passing the Torch: Does Higher Education for the Disadvantaged Pay Off Across the Generations? It won the 2009 Grawemeyer Award in Education and also the American Education Research Association's Outstanding Book Award for 2009. Katherine S. Newman is the Malcolm Forbes Class of 1941 Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs and the Director of the Institute for International and Regional Studies at Princeton University. Newman's most recent books include The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America (2007) and Laid Off, Laid Low: The Social and Political Consequences of Employment Instability (2008).
Inhaltsangabe
* Preface: * Access to Education: Mobility Tool or Roadblock of Stratification? * Katherine Newman * 1.: Education and Inequality In a Global Context * Paul Attewell * 2.: Educational Inequality in Latin America * Christian Cox * 3.: Entrance into prestigious universities and the performance of discriminated groups on the "vestibular": Black Students in the University of São Paulo, 2001-2007 * Antonio S. Guimaraes * 4.: Education and Racial Inequality in Post Apartheid South Africa * Malcolm Keswell * 5.: Social Class and Educational Inequality in South Korea * Kwang-Yeong Shin, Byoung-Hoon Lee * 6.: Equal Opportunity in Higher Education in Israel: Lessons from the Kibbutz * Yaakov Gilboa, Moshe Justman * 7.: Socio-political Changes and Inequality in Educational Opportunities in China: 1940 - 2001 * Li Chunling * 8.: Middle-class Losers?: The role of emotion in educational careers * Yi-Lee Wong * 9.: The After Life of NEETS * Karen Robson * 10.: Over education and Social Generations in France: Welfare Regimes and Inter Cohort Inequalities in Returns to Education * Louis Chauvel * 11.: Education and the Labor Market: The Case of Poland * Pawel Polawski * 12.: The Socio-Economic Integration of Immigrants in the EU Effects of Characteristics of Origin and Destination Countries on the First and Second Generation * Fenella Fleischmann, Jaap Dronkers * 13.: Gender, Perceptions of Opportunity, and Investment in Schooling * Angel Harris
* Preface: * Access to Education: Mobility Tool or Roadblock of Stratification? * Katherine Newman * 1.: Education and Inequality In a Global Context * Paul Attewell * 2.: Educational Inequality in Latin America * Christian Cox * 3.: Entrance into prestigious universities and the performance of discriminated groups on the "vestibular": Black Students in the University of São Paulo, 2001-2007 * Antonio S. Guimaraes * 4.: Education and Racial Inequality in Post Apartheid South Africa * Malcolm Keswell * 5.: Social Class and Educational Inequality in South Korea * Kwang-Yeong Shin, Byoung-Hoon Lee * 6.: Equal Opportunity in Higher Education in Israel: Lessons from the Kibbutz * Yaakov Gilboa, Moshe Justman * 7.: Socio-political Changes and Inequality in Educational Opportunities in China: 1940 - 2001 * Li Chunling * 8.: Middle-class Losers?: The role of emotion in educational careers * Yi-Lee Wong * 9.: The After Life of NEETS * Karen Robson * 10.: Over education and Social Generations in France: Welfare Regimes and Inter Cohort Inequalities in Returns to Education * Louis Chauvel * 11.: Education and the Labor Market: The Case of Poland * Pawel Polawski * 12.: The Socio-Economic Integration of Immigrants in the EU Effects of Characteristics of Origin and Destination Countries on the First and Second Generation * Fenella Fleischmann, Jaap Dronkers * 13.: Gender, Perceptions of Opportunity, and Investment in Schooling * Angel Harris
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