Social class and education global perspectives

Social class and education global perspectives

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Weis, Lois (Editor), Dolby, Nadine 1964- (Editor)
Resource Type: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group 2012.
Series:Education in global context
Subjects:
Educational sociology > Cross-cultural studies.
Social classes > Cross-cultural studies.
Education and globalization > Cross-cultural studies.
Comparative education > Cross-cultural studies.
Educational equalization > Cross-cultural studies.
Students with social disabilities > Education > Cross-cultural studies.
Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • Expanded opportunities for all in global higher education systems / Richard Arum, Adam Gamoran, and Yossi Shavit
  • The changing educational opportunity structure in China : 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.