School Choice, Ethnic Divisions, and Symbolic Boundaries

by S. Lund

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137480064
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	03/24/2015
Edition description:	2015
Pages:	100
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.01(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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