Promoting Social Mixity in Schools: Strategies for Reducing Segregation and Enhancing Diversity
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Social mixity at school, school segregation, education policy, social diversity, school admissions, zoning, sectorization, educational inequalities, school map, mixity index, inter-school disparities, gentrification, private schools, public schools, Jules Ferry, republican school, educational reform, school choice, social composition, institutional strata, territorial inequalities, educational management, school assignments, disability access, scholarship holders, Cartron report, Thaurel-Richard, Murat, Choukri Ben Ayed, Haute-Vienne, Perpignan, educational zoning, school sectorization, French education system, Hollande, educational circulars, educational legislation, school polarization, rare options, educational resources, pedagogical team, social mixity policies, educational inequalities reduction
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Explore the complexities of social mixity at school with "Social Mixity at School" by Choukri Ben Ayed. This insightful work examines the challenges of achieving mixity between and within educational establishments, and the policies that can promote or hinder it. Discover how the French education system has struggled to implement effective mixity policies, and learn from the author's analysis of the 2007 reform and its failure to relax the school map. Uncover the importance of considering both external and internal segregation, and the need for a more nuanced approach to promoting social diversity in schools. Dive into the author's proposals for improving mixity, including revising school zoning, limiting school choice, and promoting diversity in admissions. Gain a deeper understanding of the intricate relationships between social mixity, segregation, and educational outcomes.
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[...] Observation of a positioning gap for mixity and lack of tools in its favor (regulation and correction tools of inequalities). For the author, the only tool is the school map but criticized for its bureaucratic aspect, supposed to be inefficient and representing a constraint for families. p. 64-66: Establishment of the school map and utility. Started in 1963. Division of the territory into recruitment zones for assignment, hence the binding nature. Problem: possibility of bypassing the zoning + cases of overlap allowing the choice of establishment. [...]
[...] Page 116: Obin and Peyroux (2007), general inspectors of the EN Reform qualified as 'disappointing' on the subject of social mixity p.116 p.117: figures of decreases and increases: demographic imbalance in the establishments. Observations of a social homogenization of the publics in ZEP/RAR. p.118: no mixity but less flight to the private sector p.119: research by Pierre Merle: measurement of inter-college segregation from 2005 to 2008 with a dissimilarity index in Paris. Departure: strong segregation. 2005-2006: slight decrease. 2006-2008: strong increase. Popular middle class in decline and concentrated (strong increase) in certain establishments: situation considered worrying. [...]
[...] For the author: attempts at unity do not work because mindsets are not deconstructed and inequalities are not reduced upstream. II. Chapter The contradictions of social mixity at school A semantics for 6 different conceptions: 'This finding testifies to the strong heterogeneity of the meanings at play. [ . ] These conceptions are not devoid of contradictions, systems of oppositions and unthoughts' (p.30). Table p.33. Then grouped into 6 poles: humanist, moralist, distributive (could have been named 'pole of equal opportunities' or 'meritocratic pole'), modernist, bureaucratic manager, egalitarian-cognitivist (p.34) p.39-40. [...]
[...] Social Mixity at School. Tensions, Issues, Perspectives - Choukri Ben Ayed (2015) https://www.cairn.info/la-mixite-sociale-a-l-ecole--9782200275341.htm SOCIAL MIXITY AT SCHOOL Ben Ayed (2015) Introduction La « Social Mixity at School » takes root in the construction of the republican school which will be the historical starting point of the author. Opposition between school for all and all versus framework of the third republic school 'controlled and compartmentalized' (p.6). Hypothesis: « Opening and expansion of education do not necessarily mean unity of contexts and educational trajectories. [...]
[...] « Show the plurality of senses and meanings associated with the notion of social mixity interpreted here in a communitarian vision p.155: Merle interview of April at pedagogical café : proposal to promote mixity: "review the priority education policy that contributes to stigmatizing institutions and reinforcing school segregation", notes a worsening in ZEP due to the flight of driving students, proposes to index funding according to mixity, make the offer homogeneous to limit competition that accentuates segregation. p.156: proposal in May 2014 by the union of school principals SNDPEN: abolish the management of assignments through Affelnet, reorganization of sectors, include private schools in the new sectorization. p.158: proposal retained: enhance attractiveness through incentives ? remake to 2and plan of segregation p.159 to 200: grey literature produced on the issues of diversity. p.159: The Hébrard report (2000): segregation harmful to service efficiency, contrary to civic culture, contradictory to equal principles. [...]
