S. Lund

School Choice, Ethnic Divisions, and Symbolic Boundaries

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US / Palgrave Pivot / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-48006-4
• 2015
• Seitenzahl: 100
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 291g
• ISBN-13: 9781137480064
• ISBN-10: 1137480068
• Artikelnr.: 42408691

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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