Resisting education : a cross-national study on systems and school effects / Jannick Demanet, Mieke van Houtte, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Demanet, Jannick, editor.

Houtte, Mieke van, editor.

Series:

International study of city youth education.

International study of city youth education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motivation in education--Cross-cultural studies.

Motivation in education.

Effective teaching--Cross-cultural studies.

Effective teaching.

Academic achievement--Cross-cultural studies.

Academic achievement.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

xvi, 208 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer Nature, [2019]

Summary:

This book focuses on how school-level features affect student resistance to education from a comparative angle, taking into account cross-national differences. All over the world, policy makers, school administrators, teachers, and parents are dealing with students who resist education. Resisting school might ultimately lead to unqualified dropout, and it is therefore crucial to understand what triggers resistance in students. The book uses the ISCY data set to study multilevel questions in detail. It does so based on the view that system effects and school effects intertwine: system-level policy measures affect student outcomes in part by shaping school-level features, and school effects may differ according to certain system-level features. We start from an overarching theoretical framework that ties the various city-specific insights together, and contains empirical studies from Barcelona, Bergen, Ghent, Montréal Reykjavik, Sacramento, and Turku. It shows that, in all countries, the act of resisting school is more likely to occur among the socio-economically disadvantaged, and those in the most disadvantaged schools. However, educational system features, including tracking, free school choice, and school autonomy, are important driving factors of the differences between schools. As such, systems have the tools to curb between-school differences in resistance. Previous research turns resistance into a problem of individual students. However, if school or system features engender resistance to school, policy initiatives directed at individual students may solve the problem only partially.

Contents:

Part I Introduction

School effects on deviance: an international perspective / Jannick Demanet and Mieke Van Routte

Understanding student misconduct in urban schools: is there a need for a cross-national approach? / Sophie Pascal, Michel Janosz, Isabelle Archambault, and Matie-Christine Brault

Part II Case Studies

The effects of 21st century skills on behavioral disengagement in Sacramento high schools / Gregory J. Palardy and Russell W. Rumberger

Student disengagement in comprehensive school in Turku, southwest Finland / Tero Järvinen and Jenni Tikkanen

School misconduct in a unified system: Norwegian 10th graders in Bergen / Thea Bertnes Strømme

Student disengagement in inclusive icelandic education: a question of school effect in Reykjavik / Kristjana Stella Blondal, Jón Torfi Jónasson, and Atli Hafthórsson

Socioeconomic school composition and school misconduct: disentangling structural and cultural explanations in Ghent / Jannick Demanet, Laura Van den Broeck, and Mieke Van Houtte

A multilevel analysis of student school misconduct in high schools: investigating the role of school socioeconomic composition and teacher culture in Montreal / Marie-Christine Brault, Véronique Dupéré, Michel Janosz, Sophie Pascal, Isabelle Archambault, and Nathan Yerg

Bad schools or bad pupils? school effects on misbehaviour in Barcelona / Rafael Merino Pareja and Dani Torrents Vila

Part III Conclusion

Resisting education: do schools and systems matter? / Jannick Demanet and Mieke Van Houtte.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783030042264

303004226X

OCLC:

1057653166