Educational Policies and Inequalities in Europe

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Towards a Comparison of Priority Education Policies in Europe

   1. Introduction: Towards a Comparison of Priority Education Policies in Europe

      • Daniel Frandji

      Pages 1-20

3. England

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. Policy Interventions to Reduce Educational Inequalities - The Case of England, 1997–2010

      • Lia Antoniou, Alan Dyson, Carlo Raffo

      Pages 23-51

4. Belgium

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53

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   2. Priority Education Policies in Belgium: Two Modes of Regulation of the Effects of a Market Logic

      • Nathanaël Friant, Marc Demeuse, Angeline Aubert-Lotarski, Idesbald Nicaise

      Pages 55-89

5. France

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91

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   2. Twenty-Five Years of Priority Education Policy in France: Dubious Specificity and Disappointing Results

      • Jean-Yves Rochex

      Pages 93-123

6. Greece

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125

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   2. Greece: On Mechanisms and Successive Programmes between Support and Innovation

      • Gella Varnava-Skoura, Dimitris Vergidis, Chryssa Kassimi

      Pages 127-154

7. Portugal

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-155

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   2. From the Invention of the Democratic City to the Management of Exclusion and Urban Violence in Portugal

      • José Alberto Correia, Inês Cruz, Jean-Yves Rochex, Lucilia Salgado

      Pages 157-188

8. Czech Republic

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189

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   2. Priority Education Policies in the Czech Republic: Redesigning Equity Policies in the Post-Communist Transformation

      • David Greger, Markéta Levínská, Irena Smetáčková

      Pages 191-219

9. Romania

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 221-221

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   2. Romania: A System in Evolution, Searching for Its Conceptual References

      • Calin Rus

      Pages 223-256

10. Sweden

    1. Front Matter

       Pages 257-257

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    2. Sweden: Priority Education Policies in Times of Decentralisation and Individualisation

       • Guadalupe Francia, Lázaro Moreno Herrera

       Pages 259-287

    3. General Conclusion: Priority Education Policies in Europe, from One ‘Age’ and One Country to Another

       • Jean-Yves Rochex

       Pages 288-319

11. Back Matter

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This book analyzes policies in eight European countries that aim to intervene in the reproduction of social and educational inequalities. In order to understand why some policies succeed and others fail, it is necessary to look at education systems through cross-national comparison.

• Design
• education
• education policy
• Europe
• evolution
• innovation
• intervention
• Nation
• research
• transformation
• violence

• University of Mons, Belgium

  Marc Demeuse

• Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, French Institute of Education, Triangle, France

  Daniel Frandji

• Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

  David Greger

• Paris 8 University, France

  Jean-Yves Rochex

LIA ANTONIOU works at the School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University, Sweden ANGELINE AUBERT-LOTARSKI Quality Coordinator at the faculty of Engineering and researcher at the School Administration Institute at University of Mons, Belgium JOSÉ-ALBERTO CORREIA Professor of Education and is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences at the University of Porto, Portugal INÊS CRUZ is currently Professor at the Superior School of Education of Coimbra, Portugal ALAN DYSON Professor of Education and Co-director of the Centre for Equity in Education at the University of Manchester, UK GUADALUPE FRANCIA Associate Professor in Education at Uppsala University, Sweden NATHANAËL FRIANT Doctoral Assistant at the School Administration Institute, Faculty of Psychology and Education at the University of Mons, Belgium CHRYSSA KASSIMI Research and Studies Officer at the National Centre for Public Administration and Local Government, Greece MARKÉTA LEVÍNSKÁ Researcher at the Department of Psychology at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic LAZARO MORENO HERRERA Associate Professor at the School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences at Örebro University, Sweden IDESBALD NICAISE Professor at the Department of Education Sciences and Head of the Research Group Education and Lifelong Learning at HIVA (Hoger Instituut voor de Arbeid), both at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium CARLO RAFFO Lecturer at the University of Manchester, UK CALIN RUS Director of the Intercultural Institute of Timisoara in Romania LUCILIA SALGADO Professor at the Graduate School of Education in Coimbra, Portugal IRENA SMETÁ?KOVÁ teaches in the Department of Psychology at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic GELLA VARNAVA-SKOURA Professor of Psychology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece DIMITRIS VERGIDIS Professor of Adult Education and Educational Policy at the University of Patras, Greece