Education, Equality and Social Cohesion: A Comparative Analysis [Paperback]

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.List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Education and the Rediscovery of Social Cohesion Education and Social Cohesion: Re-Centring the Debate Educational Inequality and Social Cohesion: An Over-Time Analysis Education, Tolerance and Social Cohesion Ethno-Linguistic Diversity, Citizenship Education and Civic Attitudes Comprehensive Schooling and Educational Inequality Models of Lifelong Learning and the 'Knowledge Society' Conclusion: Some Remarks on Future Research Notes and References Appendix: Data Tables Bibliography Index

Andy Green, John Preston and Jan Germen Janmaat have provided a wonderful example of a theoretically and empirically informed social science approach to the study of education policy in this time of globalization. - Bob Lingard, British Journal of Sociology of Education

This is a worthwhile and provocative volume, one that sets a high standard for future comparative research on education and social cohesion, and for mixed method research in education more generally. - Karen Mundy, British Journal of the Sociology of Education

This book offers a highly competent corrective example to pseudo-social economism, on the one hand, and critical culturalism in education, on the other. - Philip Wexler, British Journal of the Sociology of Education

The most relevant outcome of this study for educational policy and praxis is that Green and colleagues argue in a very convincing manner for the significance of the debate on 'education systems' for a German reader this is especially interesting because, even in the aftermath of the catastrophic PISA resull“ê