Education, Equality and Social Cohesion: A Comparative Analysis

✍ Scribed by Andy Green, John Preston, Jan Germen Janmaat

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 237
• Edition: First Edition
• 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 a wide-ranging theoretical critique, and extensive analysis of data on inequality and social attitudes for over 25 developed countries, the study shows how educational inequality undermines social trust, civic co-operation and the rule of law. It is not how much education a country has that matters for social cohesion but how it is distributed and the co-operative values that people learn.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables......Page 7
List of Figures......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Introduction: Education and the Rediscovery of Social Cohesion......Page 12
1 Education and Social Cohesion: Re-Centring the Debate......Page 30
2 Educational Inequality and Social Cohesion: An Over-Time Analysis......Page 66
3 Education, Tolerance and Social Cohesion......Page 82
4 Ethno-Linguistic Diversity, Civic Attitudes and Citizenship Education......Page 101
5 Comprehensive Schooling and Educational Inequality......Page 129
6 Models of Lifelong Learning and the ‘Knowledge Society’: Education for Competitiveness and Social Cohesion......Page 152
7 Conclusion: Some Remarks on Future Research......Page 186
Appendix: Datasets Used in This Book......Page 198
Notes and References......Page 215
Bibliography......Page 218
G......Page 230
P......Page 231
W......Page 232
E......Page 233
I......Page 234
P......Page 235
S......Page 236
W......Page 237