Full Description
This insightful book provides a crucial understanding of the relationship between gentrification and education. Drawing on an array of international research, it examines how families, schools and education policies interact with urban transformation to highlight complex and often overlooked patterns.
Leading experts examine how student populations and competition for school places are reshaped when neighbourhoods are transformed by rising housing costs and the arrival of affluent residents. They illustrate how the outcomes of gentrification, including increased segregation, reinforced education inequalities and uneven access to resources, are consistently harmful despite varying local policies. By analysing evidence from diverse contexts, the book demonstrates that schools are not only affected by urban change, but are key sites where the social consequences of gentrification unfold and educational opportunities are limited or widened.
Gentrification and Schooling in Global Cities is an essential resource for scholars and students of educational equity and access, particularly those interested in urban education. Education policymakers and urban planners will also benefit from its actionable recommendations for mitigating the impact of urban change.
Contents
Contents
PART I GENTRIFICATION AND CHANGE IN THE
EDUCATIONAL MARKETPLACE
1 A concept run amok: how to use gentrification in urban studies 18
Daniel Sorando
2 Gentrifying schools in gentrifying neighborhoods: recent
developments and future research in the United States 35
Shelley M. Kimelberg and Chase M. Billingham
3 A multilevel perspective on urban and educational change:
re-theorizing the link between neighborhood gentrification
and school demographics 52
Kfir Mordechay and Jared N. Schachner
4 Schools in transforming neighborhoods: the combined impact
of urban change and school choice. The case of Milan 70
Marta Cordini and Andrea Parma
PART II GENTRIFICATION, SCHOOL CHOICE, AND
SCHOOL SEGREGATION
5 Understanding the relationship between gentrification and
school segregation through agent-based models 96
Eric Dignum and Willem Boterman
6 Gentrification and school segregation in Oslo: middle-class
strategies and educational inequalities in an egalitarian context 121
Roberta Cucca and Ingar Brattbakk
7 Do gentrifiers fly from local schools? The case of Barcelona 142
Xavier Bonal, Sheila González-Motos and Carlos Bueno
8 "Residential gentrification" without "school gentrification" in
the Parisian close suburbs 177
Lise Lécuyer and Marco Oberti
PART III SCHOOL GENTRIFICATION AND ACTORS' RESPONSES
9 Desegregation strategies and gentrifiers: conceptual analysis
on the justification of social closure in urban school markets
in Finland 197
Sonja Kosunen and Heidi Huilla
10 Challenging educational inequalities in gentrified
neighborhoods: the role of grassroots activism in Milan 216
Carlotta Caciagli
11 School gentrification and social reproduction: a Bourdieusian
approach to urban education 233
Marcel Pagès, Pablo Neut Aguayo, Andreu Termes and Nur
Garcia-Borés Moreno
PART IV CONCLUSIONS
12 Schooling in gentrifying cities: a critical conclusion 255
Xavier Bonal and Marta Cordini
