Making Sense of School Choice: Politics, Policies, and Practice under Conditions of Cultural Diversity

Product Description


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.


Review


"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.