Education, Equality and Social Cohesion: A Comparative Analysis

✍ Scribed by Andy Green, John Preston, Jan Germen Janmaat (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 236
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The first fully comparative empirical analysis of the relationship between education and social cohesion, this book develops a new 'distributional theory' of the effects of educational inequality on social solidarity. Based on extensive analysis of data on inequality and social attitudes for over 25 developed countries.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction: Education and the Rediscovery of Social Cohesion....Pages 1-18
Education and Social Cohesion: Re-Centring the Debate....Pages 19-54
Educational Inequality and Social Cohesion: An Over-Time Analysis....Pages 55-70
Education, Tolerance and Social Cohesion....Pages 71-89
Ethno-Linguistic Diversity, Civic Attitudes and Citizenship Education....Pages 90-117
Comprehensive Schooling and Educational Inequality....Pages 118-140
Models of Lifelong Learning and the ‘Knowledge Society’: Education for Competitiveness and Social Cohesion....Pages 141-174
Conclusion: Some Remarks on Future Research....Pages 175-186
Back Matter....Pages 187-226

✦ Subjects

Education Policy; International and Comparative Education; Educational Philosophy; Sociology of Education; Sociology of Education; Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights