Education, Democracy and Inequality Political Engagement and Citizenship Education in Europe /

• Main Authors: Hoskins, Bryony (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Janmaat, Jan Germen (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Education, Economy and Society
• Subjects: Educational sociology.; Democracy.; International education .; Comparative education.; Educational sociology .; Education and sociology.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Sociology of Education.; International and Comparative Education.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.

This book posits that national education systems are enhancing socioeconomic inequalities in political engagement. While the democratic ideal is social equality in political engagement, the authors demonstrate that the English education system is recreating and enhancing entrenched democratic inequa...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Learning political engagement
• Chapter 3. Access to forms of political learning
• Chapter 4. Social gaps in forms of learning and political engagement: 11-16 year olds in England
• Chapter 5. England in a comparative light: lower secondary
• Chapter 6. Learning political engagement in further and higher education in England
• Chapter 7. The Influence of Post-16 Education on Political Engagement: England Compared to Other States
• Chapter 8. Conclusions and implications for policy and practice .