The Palgrave Handbook of Race and Ethnic Inequalities in Education

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxxvii

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2. Introduction to the Handbook (Second Edition): Comparative Sociological Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Inequalities in Education

   • Peter A. J. Stevens, A. Gary Dworkin

   Pages 1-6

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3. Argentina. Researching Ethnic and Educational Inequalities in Changing Policy Scenarios: From Homogenization to the Recognition of Diversity

   • Analía Inés Meo, Silvina Cimolai, Lara Ailén Encinas

   Pages 7-60

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4. Australia: A Multicultural Education Experiment

   • Lawrence J. Saha

   Pages 61-104

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5. Austria: Equity Research Between Family Background, Educational System and Language Policies

   • Barbara Herzog-Punzenberger, Philipp Schnell

   Pages 105-158

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6. Belgium: Cultural Versus Class Explanations for Ethnic Inequalities in Education in the Flemish and French Communities

   • Lore Van Praag, Marie Verhoeven, Peter A. J. Stevens, Mieke Van Houtte

   Pages 159-213

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7. Brazil: An Overview of Research on Race and Ethnic Inequalities in Education

   • Luiz Alberto Oliveira Gonçalves, Natalino Neves da Silva, Nigel Brooke

   Pages 215-251

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8. Canada: A Review of Research on Race, Ethnicity and Inequality in Education from 1980 to 2017

   • Katherine Lyon, Neil Guppy

   Pages 253-300

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9. China: Sociological Perspectives on Ethnicity and Education: Views from Chinese and English Literatures

   • Hua-Yu Sebastian Cherng, Emily Hannum, Chunping Lu, Peggy A. Kong, Xiaoran Yu

   Pages 301-344

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10. Cyprus: Educational Inequalities in a Divided Country

    • Spyros Spyrou, Marios Vryonides

    Pages 345-377

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11. The Czech Republic: From Ethnic Discrimination to Social Inclusion in the Educational System

    • Laura Fónadová, Tomáš Katrňák, Natalie Simonová

    Pages 379-419

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12. England: Critical Perspectives on the Role of Schools in Developing Race/Ethnic Inequalities

    • Peter A. J. Stevens, Ada Mau, Gill Crozier

    Pages 421-484

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13. Finland: A Learning Society with Limited Understanding of Ethnicity in the Everyday Life at School

    • Päivi Armila, M’hammed Sabour

    Pages 485-507

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14. France: The Increasing Recognition of Migration and Ethnicity as a Source of Educational Inequalities

    • Mathieu Ichou, Agnès van Zanten

    Pages 509-556

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15. Germany: Systemic, Sociocultural and Linguistic Perspectives on Educational Inequality

    • Ingrid Gogolin, Sarah McMonagle, Tanja Salem

    Pages 557-602

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16. Ireland: A Shift Towards Religious Equality in Schools

    • Daniel Faas, Rachael Fionda

    Pages 603-629

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17. Israel: Gaps in Educational Outcomes in a Changing Multi-Ethnic Society

    • Nura Resh, Nachum Blass

    Pages 631-694

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18. Italy: Four Emerging Traditions in Immigrant Education Studies

    • Davide Azzolini, Debora Mantovani, Mariagrazia Santagati

    Pages 695-745

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19. Japan: The Localization Approach and an Emerging Trend Toward the Study of Poverty Within Ethnicity and Inequality

    • Kaori H. Okano

    Pages 747-781

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20. The Netherlands: From Diversity Celebration to a Colorblind Approach

    • Peter A. J. Stevens, Maurice Crul, Marieke W. Slootman, Noel Clycq, Christiane Timmerman

    Pages 783-841

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This authoritative, state-of-the-art reference work builds on its first edition to provide a cutting-edge systematic review of the relationship between race/ethnicity and educational inequality. Studying 25 different national contexts drawn from every inhabited continent on earth and building upon material from the earlier edition, the work analyses educational policies, practices and research on minority students, immigrants and refugees. The editors and contributors explore principal research traditions from countries as diverse as Argentina, China, Norway and South Africa, examining the factors promoting social cohesion as well as considerations regarding the use of international test score data. Seamlessly integrating findings of national reviews, the editors and contributors analyse how national contexts of race/ethnic relations shape the character and content of educational inequalities, and deftly map out new directions for future research in the area.


Global in its perspective and definitive in content, this one-stop volume will be an indispensable reference resource for a wide range of academics, students and researchers in the fields of education, sociology, race and ethnicity studies and social policy.



Chapter 20 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at SpringerLink (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-94724-2_20)

• Ethnicity
• Racial inequality
• Discrimination
• Equality
• Social mobility

   

• Department of Sociology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

  Peter A. J. Stevens

• Department of Sociology, The University of Houston, Houston, USA

  A. Gary Dworkin

Peter A.J. Stevens is Associate Professor in Qualitative Research Methodology in the Department of Sociology at Ghent University, Belgium. He is a member of the research groups CuDOS (Cultural Diversity: Opportunities and Socialization) and CESSMIR (Centre for the Social Study of Migration and Refugees) at Ghent University.



A. Gary Dworkin is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Sociology of Education Research Group (SERG) at the University of Houston, USA. He has just finished an eight-year term as President of the Sociology of Education Research Committee (RC04) of the International Sociological Association and now serves on the board as Past President. 

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