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Maire, Quentin – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2022
The internationalisation of educational trajectories has emerged as a new form of cultural capital in education systems. Research suggests that the 'international capital' offered by language enrichment programs has become appropriated primarily by middle- and upper-class families investing in new forms of educational distinction. However, little…
Descriptors: Social Class, Social Capital, Cultural Capital, Family Financial Resources
Seghers, Marie; Boone, Simon; Van Avermaet, Piet – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2019
Social class differences in educational decision-making form an important explanation for persisting educational inequalities, particularly in choice-driven systems with early tracking. Nevertheless, little is known about the process preceding these choices, especially when school and track choice are interrelated. Building on school choice…
Descriptors: Social Class, Decision Making, Equal Education, Social Differences
Groves, Julian M.; O'Connor, Paul – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2018
We examine school choices made by western expatriate parents in post-colonial Hong Kong in order to understand the essence of imagined global citizenship and its implications for existing ethnic and class inequalities in the education system. Responding to changes in the global job market, a small but increasingly visible group of parents are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Choice, Parent Attitudes, Ethnic Groups
Education Policy in an Era of Neoliberal Urbanisation: A Case Study of Istanbul's School Relocations
Bayhan, Sezen; Gök, Fatma – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2017
This article examines an effort to spatially re-organise urban public schools in the largest city in Turkey. Recently, the Turkish government has made an effort to relocate inner-city public schools in Istanbul to less desirable parts of the city. Analysing how education policy in the country is tied to wider political mechanisms and considering…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Neoliberalism, Foreign Countries, Urban Schools
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Reay, Diane – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 1998
Highlights the centrality of women to social reproduction through a focus on the sociocultural processes of parental involvement. Argues that, although most mothers help children with school work, only middle-class mothers have resources to shape effectively the curriculum offered. Concludes that the market system of education favors the middle…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Middle Class