Educational Inequality and Educational Expansion in China

2013 ◽  
pp. 569-591
Author(s):  
Li Chunling
Keyword(s):  
Educational Inequality ◽  
Educational Expansion

The reproduction of educational elites through natural cultivation. A qualitative analysis of educational child-rearing practices as strategies of cultural distinction

Soziale Welt ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-83
Author(s):  
Tim Sawert
Keyword(s):  
Educational Inequality ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Educational Expansion ◽  
Educational Strategies ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Uk

During the last decades, the socially inclusive educational expansion diluted the previous exclusiveness of upper secondary degrees. Unlike the UK, the USA, or France, no explicit “elite” institutions do exist in the German educational system. Nevertheless, educational inequality is no less pronounced. Hence, what child-rearing practices do educationally privileged families in Germany apply to intergenerationally transfer their social privilege in times of educational expansion? The article focusses on one such practice: the acquisition of humanist knowledge by learning Latin and Ancient Greek as a strategy of cultural distinction. To analyse educational strategies and whether people draw lines of distinction along knowledge in Latin and Ancient Greek, I conducted semi-structured interviews with parents of adolescents who had chosen different foreign language profiles. I show how the acquisition of this specific symbolic capital is embedded in a child-rearing practice aimed at obtaining horizontal educational distinction for a privileged academic class. Additionally, I show that the highly privileged status of particularly established academic families results in a child-rearing practice that I call natural cultivation, a more invisible strategy of distinctive child-rearing that appears almost passive compared to those already discussed more widely (e.g. Lareau 2003).

scholarly journals Educational Inequality, Educational Expansion and Intergenerational Mobility – CORRIGENDUM

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 615-615
Author(s):  
JO BLANDEN ◽  
LINDSEY MACMILLAN
Keyword(s):  
Intergenerational Mobility ◽  
Educational Inequality ◽  
Educational Expansion

Within the original published article the acknowledgements section was sadly omitted. The following acknowledgement should have been included

scholarly journals Educational Inequality, Educational Expansion and Intergenerational Mobility

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 589-614 ◽  
Author(s):  
JO BLANDEN ◽  
LINDSEY MACMILLAN
Keyword(s):  
Educational Outcomes ◽  
Educational Achievement ◽  
Educational Inequality ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Educational Expansion ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Educational Inequalities ◽  
Market Returns ◽  
The Uk

AbstractThe distribution of education by social background and the mobility prospects of society are intimately connected. To begin to predict future trends in mobility in the UK we bring together evidence on educational inequality by family background for cohorts from 1958 to 2000 for a range of educational outcomes. There is evidence that educational inequalities have narrowed among recent cohorts as the overall level of educational achievement has increased. This could be promising for mobility provided the labour market returns to these qualifications are maintained. However, stubborn inequalities by background at higher attainment levels imply that narrowing inequalities and expanding equality of opportunity throughout the educational distribution is a difficult task.

Education in East Asian Societies: Postwar Expansion and the Evolution of Inequality

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 625-647 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Hannum ◽  
Hiroshi Ishida ◽  
Hyunjoon Park ◽  
Tony Tam
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
Returns To Education ◽  
Educational Opportunity ◽  
Educational Inequality ◽  
Educational Expansion ◽  
World War ◽  
Horizontal Stratification ◽  
Matched Comparison ◽  
Inequality Of Educational Opportunity

This article reviews research on the coevolution of educational expansion and educational inequality within China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan in the post–World War II period. These societies are often lauded for their spectacular economic growth, widespread commitment to investing in education, and intense competition for academic success. This review first considers organizational sorting and horizontal stratification within the educational system, followed by returns to education in the labor market and then the inequality of educational opportunity, with special attention to the nominal versus positional approaches to measuring education. This combination of regional focus and substantive diversity offers the leverage of an approximately matched comparison. The findings demonstrate that there are significant heterogeneities in the coevolution of educational expansion and inequality among these societies with strong cultural and political ties. The findings also suggest complex causal and contingent relationships among educational expansion, educational stratification, returns to education, and inequality of opportunity.

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