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Exclusion as Lack of Redistribution: School Segregation as a Paradigm

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This chapter provides empirical analysis of one of the main processes of educational exclusion: school segregation as evidence of lack of redistribution. The purpose is to demonstrate that the dynamics of educational failure and ESL cannot be properly understood without factoring in a school’s social composition. Specifically, the chapter discusses the impacts of school segregation upon the lived experiences of teachers and students in secondary schools. In the first part of the chapter, the focus is on teachers and in particular on the feelings of despair, frustration, and demotivation that are often engendered in school settings that are facing many challenges. The second revolves around students and especially around the subjective impacts of the peer effect on their ability to imagine and reach a future far removed from the risk of ESL.

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    Catalonia is an autonomous region in Spain and this autonomy means that there are sometimes differences in governance and regulations, especially in education.

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    After compulsory secondary education , the Spanish education system divides into two pathways, one academic and one vocational. The only one that leads directly to university is the academic pathway , which is just one of the reasons why the levels of both social and institutional prestige are so profoundly unequal between the two alternatives. For more on this issue, see Tarabini et al. (2018).

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    All student names have been changed to protect their privacy.

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Tarabini, A. (2019). Exclusion as Lack of Redistribution: School Segregation as a Paradigm. In: The Conditions for School Success. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02523-6_4

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