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Making Sense of School Choice

Politics, Policies, and Practice under Conditions of Cultural Diversity

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  • © 2015

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  1. Joel A. Windle
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Making Sense of School Choice explains why school choice fails to deliver on its promise to meet the needs of culturally diverse populations, even in one of the world's most marketized education systems. Windle offers fresh insights into the transnational processes involved in producing educational inequalities.

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Choice, Equity, and Diversity

    • Joel A. Windle
    Pages 1-22

  3. School Choice as Policy Regime and Cultural Ideal

    • Joel A. Windle
    Pages 23-45

  4. Socially Restricted Choice in Multicultural Neighborhoods

    • Joel A. Windle
    Pages 47-76

  5. Socially Exposed Schooling: The Majority Experience

    • Joel A. Windle
    Pages 77-95

  6. The Meaning of Choice for Schools: Curriculum and Market Hierarchies

    • Joel A. Windle
    Pages 97-117

  7. The Many Lives of School Choice: Common Sense, Coercion, and Control

    • Joel A. Windle
    Pages 119-143

  8. Toward Democratic Schooling

    • Joel A. Windle
    Pages 145-161

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 163-189
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“This book received not one, but two of TASA’s book awards in 2016: the Raewyn Connell Prize for the best first book in Australian sociology and the Stephen Crook Memorial Prize for the best book in Australian sociology. The awards are well deserved. … for anyone with an interest in education, social inclusion and social justice, this book offers a profound and important critique of our current system.” (Christina Ho, Journal of Sociology, Vol. 53 (1), 2015)

"Few scholars can leverage the skills and insights that Windle brings to this brilliant analysis of school choice policies. In this provocative book, Windle shows how 'choice' can represent drastically different systems for different groups. In particular, Windle expertly utilizes multiple lenses of majority populations, ethnic-minority groups, exclusive schools, and "socially exposed" schools in dissecting school choice policies. This is a major contribution to our understanding of how choice works, and how it doesn't." - Christopher Lubienski, Professor of Education Policy and Director of the Forum on the Future of Public Education, University of Illinois, USA

About the author

Joel A. Windle is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities at the Federal University of Ouro Preto, Brazil, and Associate Senior Researcher at the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia.

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