VIRTUAL EVENT: The politics of differentiation reforms in secondary education

The massification of secondary schooling is the key educational project of the first post-war period. 

However, while all advanced economies expanded secondary education between 1945 and 1980, the resulting educational structures differed widely in terms of their structural differentiation, which we conceptualise as a combination of stratification (number and selectivity of tracks) and standardisation (homogeneity of tracks).

This event will explore the political dynamics behind these varying reform outcomes. 

Speakers

Jane Gingrich is a Professor of Comparative Political Economy, at the Univesity of Oxford and a Tutorial Fellow at Magdalen College. She is the Principal Investigator of the ERC funded Schoolpol project.

Anja Giudici is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Schoolpol project at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford.

Links

• Centre for Learning and Life Chances in Knowledge Economies and Societies
• Department of Education, Practice and Society

Image: Phil Meech for UCL Institute of Education