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Socio-economic

segregation through and


beyond school choice

Xavier Rambla
Social Context and School
Management
Bachelor’s Degree in Primary
Education
UAB
Education policy

• Consists of running institutional systems constituted by kindergarten,


schools, adult education programmes, higher education institutions,
VET programmes and continuous training.
• Entails issues such as admission, teachers’ recruitment, accountability,
curriculum, assessment and funding.
• Enacts continuous negotiation and conflict between levels of
governance.
European institutions have set a strategic plan (Eur. Ed. Area 2030) and
have established standards of quality and equity.
The Parliament of Spain approves acts that define the school
curriculum and the rules of funding.
The ‘autonomous communities’ decide on the other issues.
Municipalities are in charge of buildings and increasingly intervene on
admission policies and leisure education.
‘Opening the black box’ of
education policy
• Policy-making proceeds through contingent articulations of
problems, solutions and politics (i.e., negotiation and conflict).
International organisations, global corporations and a variety
of think tanks bundle problems and solutions by means of
alleged ‘evidence-based best practices’. But…
These policy actors deploy uneven sets of resources.
• How do education policies impinge on the intersections of
class, gender and ethnicity. How? To be continued…
• Examples of controversial best practices: school choice,
pedagogical innovation based on neurology, performance-
based management,
• School segregation is not only a practice that
discriminates against children and violates
Effects of their right to education on an equal footing
with others, but it also reduces their chances
school of acquiring essential life skills through
contact with others; it is often a first step in a
segregati life of segregation (…)
• Available studies indicate that school
on segregation has negative implications not
only for minority or vulnerable students
(Council themselves but also jeopardises the overall
performance of education (…)
of • The isolation of minority groups such as
Roma/Travellers and migrant students newly
Europe) enrolled into the education system harms the
social integration of these students and
weakens the bonds of social cohesion.
School Worsens
segregat qualification
ion
disrupts Hinders
Biesta’s socialisation
domains
of Blocks autonomous
purpose individualisation
Hoarding
opportuni The better off take advantage of the best
ties schools through…
• selective admission policies,
through • tuition fees and fiscal exceptions,

school • disparate housing prices,


• homogeneous catchment areas,.
segregati
on
Elective
affinities Likes like the same and choose alike by
pondering

provoke • school pedagogies,


• school philosophy, religious

school denomination and similar characteristics,


and

segrega • getting information through their


network of acquaintances.

tion

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