Urban Fragmentation and School Segregation: A Territorial Analysis of School Practices in Marseille.
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School practices, urban fragmentation, school avoidance, marseille, school segregation, educational expectations, school map, public middle schools, private education
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Explore the complex relationship between urban fragmentation and school practices in Marseille through "Geography of Urban Fragmentation and School Territories in Marseille" by Gwenaëlle Audren. This comprehensive analysis examines how school segregation and avoidance practices are influenced by socio-territorial recompositions, revealing the intricate dynamics between city and school. Discover how school mapping policies impact social segregation and how different stakeholders shape the educational landscape. Uncover the diverse school practices and strategies employed by school principals, and understand the effects of local contexts on parent choices. This insightful study provides a nuanced understanding of the challenges and opportunities in creating inclusive and equitable educational environments. Dive into the findings and gain valuable perspectives on the role of schools in urban development and social integration.
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[...] Finally, Audren shows that since the 1980s, to counter the effects of two decades of deindustrialization, economic and demographic crisis, the Marseille municipality has had the goal of attracting young and solvent households, the crisis having weakened the city's fiscal resources. Thus, the city has engaged in a voluntary process of urban renewal and territorial marketing. This is a strategy that has borne fruit since between 1999 and 2006, the city gained +100,000 arrivals, with a surplus of +40,000 inhabitants, and 60% of new Marseillais were between 20 and 40 years old of the neo-Marseillais were managers. [...]
[...] For these elites, academic success is translated into access to the best establishments, but she insists that it should not be reduced to access to private schools. She indicates that this depends on the level of education sought, but also on territorial configurations. In the neighborhood, the use of private schools is made in two prestigious establishments: Provence and Cluny. The Périer neighborhood is characterized by large, closed, contiguous residential ensembles, as well as a significant proportion of housing and urbanized surface area. [...]
[...] First, the author analyzes that school practices are spatially localized. In of students respected the school map avoided it. Avoidance increased between 2006 and 2009. The choices of avoidance are made mainly in the nearby school sector and for the most part in the private sector The majority avoids by going to Provence and Cluny colleges. She analyzes that this concerns mainly populations with very favorable economic capital and that the middle categories with cultural capital respect the school map for the most part. [...]
[...] To regulate the allocation of students, school recruitment sectors have been delimited. The second chapter aims to understand the existing links between educational institutions and their neighborhoods of implantation and attempts to answer the following question: 'To what extent do the characteristics and distribution of educational offer in the city determine different practices according to sectors?' To answer this question, the thesis provides a snapshot of the school offer at the level of colleges by describing its characteristics in the public and private sectors and shows that this offer is revealing of marked inequalities between colleges. [...]
[...] The neighborhood is generally the historical place of anchorage of the Marseilles bourgeoisie. And it is a neighborhood that has not undergone deep residential mutations. The public school offer is considered to be of good quality but the offer of private schools is overrepresented. The author asks here: 'To what extent does the density of private establishments affect school practices? In what way can social belonging orient certain school choices?' The beautiful neighborhoods Located in the 8th arrondissement in the south of the city. [...]
