CALL FOR papers
Session on ‘Education and the City’
RC21 CONFERENCE 2013 ‘RESOURCEFUL CITIES’
Berlin (Germany), 29-31 August 2013
Humboldt-University Berlin
http://www.rc21.org/conferences/berlin2013/32.php
Education and the City
Urban restructuring has resulted in massive changes to their occupational structures which has had long term consequences for their social composition. In spite of the development of a rhetoric and policy discourse around social mixing and equality of opportunity, cities have become more socially unequal. Education has played a key role in this process in which, despite being the assumed means for achieving intergenerational upward social mobility, it has increasingly become the means which those with most economic, cultural and social assets have been able to transmit this to their children through privileged access to high quality schooling. In cities which were once the home to large unskilled working-class populations, there has been a long standing shortage of high-quality schools. The demographic changes which have accompanied de-industrialisation and the development of knowledge-based economies has led to greater emphasis being placed on the acquisition of such skills in a situation, there has been little upgrading of their educational infrastructure and provision. At the same time, the role played by the state has been changing, with the allocation of scarce resources being increasingly mediated by consumer competition for places in a situation where parents increasingly feel under an obligation to enter such competition. In this panel, we wish to explore the different ways in which this competition for educational assets is working out in different cities and in exploring some of the wider consequences for socio-spatial segregation and social mixing.
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
Abstracts of 300-500 words should be submitted by email to [log in to unmask] as well as to the session organizer [log in to unmask]
Abstracts should include the following information:
1. The session to which the abstract is submitted.
2. A synthesis of the issues to be addressed in the paper, the hypothesis underlying them, the empirical and/or the theoretical basis, and the structure of the paper.
3. The contact of the author(s): Name(s), affiliation, address (including postcode), telephone number (will not be made public) and an e-mail address.
Please see the conference website http://www.rc21.org/conferences/berlin2013/ for more information.
THE DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION IS 31 JANUARY 2013.
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