ISBN:
0415886953
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0415886961
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1136813691
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9780203829202
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9780415886963
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0203829204
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9781136813696
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9780415886956
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9781280660917
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 224 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Education in global context
Series Statement:
Education in Global Context Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Social Class and Education : Global Perspectives
DDC:
306.43
Keywords:
Students with social disabilities - Education
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Abstract:
Social Class and Education: Global Perspectives is the first empirically grounded volume to explore the intersections of class, social structure, opportunity, and education on a truly global scale. Fifteen essays from contributors representing the US, Europe, China, Latin America and other regions offer an unparralleled examination of how social class differences are made and experienced through schooling. By underscoring the consequences of our new global reality, this volume takes seriously the transnational migration of commerce, capital and peoples and the ramifications of such for educati
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Social class and education; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acxknowledgements; Introduction; Section 1: Postsecondary Access, Equity, and Educational Opportunity in the Global Economy; 1. Expanded Opportunities for All in Global Higher Education Systems; 2. The Changing Educational Opportunity Structure in China: Positioning for Access to Higher Education; 3. Race, Class, and Bachelor's Degree Completion in American Higher Education: Examining the Role of Life Course Transitions; Section 2: Cultural Politics, Transnational Movement, and the Role of Class
Description / Table of Contents:
4. Class Wreckage and Class Re-Positionin5. Producing class and ethnic identities among turkish youth in working- and middle-class schools in germany; 6. Transnational latin american families in the united states; 7. African migrant youth, schooling, and social class in cape town; Section 3: Class and the Changing Global Educational Context; 8. Global Scapes of Abjection; 9. "Being Middle Class Is Not Enough"; 10. Educating Supranational Citizens; 11. Cultural Politics in the "New" India; List of Contributors; Index
Description / Table of Contents:
positioning for access to higher education / Yan Zhao Ciupak and Amy E. Stich -- Race, class, and bachelor's degree completion in American higher education : examining the role of life course transitions / Josipa Roksa -- Class wreckage and class re-positioning : narratives of Japanese-educated Taiwanese / Shumin Lin -- Producing class and ethnic identities among Turkish youth in working- and middle-class schools in Germany / Daniel Faas -- Transnational Latin American families in the United States : parenting and schooling in the "neither here nor there" / Catalina Crespo-Sancho -- African migrant youth, schooling, and social class in Cape Town / Caroline Foubister and Azeem Badroodien -- Global scapes of abjection : the contemporary dynamics of some intersecting injustices / Jane Kenway and Anna Hickey-Moody -- "Being middle class is not enough" : social class, education, and school choice in Spain / Antonio Olmedo and Luis Eduardo Santa Cruz -- Educating supranational citizens : the incorporation of English language education into curriculum policies / Yun-Kyung Cha and Seung-Hwan Ham -- Cultural politics in the "new" India : social class, neoliberal globalization, and the education paradox / Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase and Timothy J. Scrase
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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