School Choice, Ethnic Divisions, and Symbolic Boundaries

This book enriches empirical and theoretical understandings of how school choice and school segregation are generated by the construction and negotiation of ethnic divisions by placing emphasis on feelings of belonging and we-ness as important structuring forces that guide and restrict students' school choices.

Autorentext

Stefan Lund is Associate professor of Education, Assistant Dean of Teacher Education, and Director of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Linnaeus University, Sweden. He has conducted research on educational choice, educational markets, school sports, and childhood. He is theoretically and methodologically interested in research issues related to sociology of education, cultural sociology, ethnography and critical discourse analysis.

Inhalt
List of Tables Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. The Study 3. School Choice and the Natural Science Program 4. Negotiating Academic Behavior and Social Manners 5. Concluding Remarks Notes References Index