Editors:
- Brings together an international group of scholars to address key questions about the role of education policy in both solving and exacerbating social inequalities
- Includes in-depth analyses of African, North American and European educational policy frameworks
- Researches educational policy issues across the breadth of schooling, from early childhood to higher education and vocational education
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Education Policy & Social Inequality (EPSI, volume 1)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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School of Education, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Stephen Parker, Trevor Gale
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School of Education, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Kalervo N. Gulson
About the editors
Trevor Gale is Professor of Education Policy and Social Justice, and Head of the School of Education at The University of Glasgow. He is a critical sociologist of education, drawing on Bourdieu’s thinking tools to research issues of social justice in schooling and higher education. He is the founding editor of Critical Studies in Education and is widely published in journals such as Journal of Education Policy, British Journal of Sociology of Education, Cambridge Journal of Education and Studies in Higher Education. His most recent book (with Lynch, Rowlands and Skourdoumbis), published by Routledge, is Practice Theory and Education: Diffractive readings in professional practice.
Kalervo N. Gulson is an Associate Professor at in the School of Education, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Australia. His primary areas of scholarship are educational policy, race and ethnicity studies, as well as social and cultural geography. Recent published work includes: Education policy, space and the city: Markets and the (in)visibility of race (Routledge, 2011); Policy, geophilosophy, education (co-authored with P. Taylor Webb, Sense, 2015); and, Education policy and racial biopolitics in the multicultural city (co-authored with P. Taylor Webb, Policy Press, forthcoming).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Policy and Inequality in Education
Editors: Stephen Parker, Kalervo N. Gulson, Trevor Gale
Series Title: Education Policy & Social Inequality
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4039-9
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-4037-5Published: 24 April 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5031-3Published: 11 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-4039-9Published: 12 April 2017
Series ISSN: 2520-1476
Series E-ISSN: 2520-1484
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 207
Topics: Educational Policy and Politics, Sociology of Education, International and Comparative Education