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Education, Equality and Social Cohesion

A Comparative Analysis

  • Authors
  • Andy Green
  • John Preston
  • Jan Germen Janmaat
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: Education and the Rediscovery of Social Cohesion
    Andy Green, John Preston, Jan Germen Janmaat
    Pages 1-18
  3. Education and Social Cohesion: Re-Centring the Debate
    Andy Green, John Preston, Jan Germen Janmaat
    Pages 19-54
  4. Educational Inequality and Social Cohesion: An Over-Time Analysis
    Andy Green, John Preston, Jan Germen Janmaat
    Pages 55-70
  5. Education, Tolerance and Social Cohesion
    Andy Green, John Preston, Jan Germen Janmaat
    Pages 71-89
  6. Ethno-Linguistic Diversity, Civic Attitudes and Citizenship Education
    Andy Green, John Preston, Jan Germen Janmaat
    Pages 90-117
  7. Comprehensive Schooling and Educational Inequality
    Andy Green, John Preston, Jan Germen Janmaat
    Pages 118-140
  8. Models of Lifelong Learning and the ‘Knowledge Society’: Education for Competitiveness and Social Cohesion
    Andy Green, John Preston, Jan Germen Janmaat
    Pages 141-174
  9. Conclusion: Some Remarks on Future Research
    Andy Green, John Preston, Jan Germen Janmaat
    Pages 175-186
  10. Back Matter
    Pages 187-226
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About this book

Introduction

The first fully comparative empirical analysis of the relationship between education and social cohesion, this book develops a new 'distributional theory' of the effects of educational inequality on social solidarity. Based on extensive analysis of data on inequality and social attitudes for over 25 developed countries.

Keywords

Diversity education learning lifelong learning research schooling

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