Overview

This volume brings together leading research to consider the role of education in creating equitable societies. Spanning phases and sectors from early childhood, through compulsory schooling and higher education, to adult learning, the contributions consider issues of fairness and inclusion in education systems in terms of access, processes and outcomes. These issues are addressed in an international and comparative perspective via analyses of: the policies of government and supra-national entities as they focus on managing the relationship between education and equity; the power of education to interrupt or perpetuate cycles of advantage and disadvantage; and the narratives of children, youth and adults as they negotiate established and emerging meanings of equity in education.

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Author:   Stephen Carney ,  Michele Schweisfurth
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   46/5
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.378kg
ISBN:  

9789004366725

ISBN 10:   9004366725
Pages:   234
Publication Date:   05 April 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1 1. Equity against the Odds: Three Stories of Island Prisons, Education and Hope 13 Elaine Unterhalter 2. Holocaust Education in Transition: A Transnational Perspective 29 Masako Shibata 3. Implementing Multicultural Curriculum for Equity: Islam in Hong Kong Education 43 Liz Jackson 4. Educational-Work Projects and Post-Graduate Pathways of Secondary Students in Chile: Individual Strategies in an Unequal Education System 59 Leandro Sepulveda and Maria Jose Valdebenito 5. The European Qualifications Framework as an EU Policy Instrument for the Marketisation of Adult and Lifelong Education 79 Eleni Prokou 6. Necessity or Right? Europeanisation and Discourses on Permeability between Vocational Education and Training and Higher Education in Germany and France 95 Nadine Bernhard 7. Mentoring in Widening Access to Higher Education 117 Jan McGhie 8. Discourse and Desire: Wellbeing as Escape from Nepali Village Life 137 Joanna Nair 9. Doing Equality through Greater Transparency? Troubling Surveillance Expansion in the Russian School System 155 Nelli Piattoeva 10. Contesting the Cities: A Comparative Perspective on the Geographically Specific Tendencies in Urban Education Policies 173 Sezen Bayhan 11. Parental Involvement in Disadvantaged Districts of Santiago: Intergenerational Consequences for Equity of a Market-Driven Educational System 189 Marcela Ramos 12. Interrogating Equity Discourses: Conceptual Considerations and Overlooked Complexities 207 Marianna Papastephanou Index 221

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Stephen Carney is an Associate Professor in Comparative Education at Roskilde University in Denmark. His research focuses on global educational reform and has involved extensive ethnographic work in Denmark, England, Nepal and China. Since 2016 he has been President of the Comparative Education Society in Europe (CESE). Michele Schweisfurth is Professor of Comparative and International Education and Director, Robert Owen Centre for Educational Change at the University of Glasgow. Her research interests include education in developing and transitional countries, learner-centred pedagogy in an international perspective and democratic education. She is a former Chair of the British Association for International and Comparative Education.

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