ERIC Number: EJ1392641
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 16
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0951-8398
EISSN: EISSN-1366-5898
'The Danes Are Rich and Live in the Villas; the Others Live in the Blocks of Flats': On the Social and Material Character of Diversity in Children's School Life in Denmark
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), v36 n6 p1123-1138 2023
In post-structurally informed research, the answer to the widely documented 'achievement gap' among ethnic minorities has been a critique of educational institutions' monocultural discourse and its exclusionary effects, thus highlighting a contingent, "discursive" conception of diversity. However, in this empirical article, 10- to 15-year-old students from two ethnically mixed schools in Denmark point to a much more concrete, social and material diversity that is laid out in terms of patterns of residence, leisure activities, and socio-economic resources at home. Over the school years, however, this social and material diversity is gradually transformed to a question of ethnicity that explains why students' opportunities for educational participation ultimately differ. From a dialectical materialist reading of Hall's concept of articulation, this article explores how this transformation is made possible in everyday school life, thus arguing that ethnic diversity is more than a contingent, discursive construction; it is closely connected to ingrained patterns of material inequity in educational practice.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Adolescents, Ethnic Groups, School Demography, Diversity, Achievement Gap, Place of Residence, Leisure Time, Socioeconomic Status, Racial Composition, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 9, Student Participation, Educational Environment
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 4; Intermediate Grades; Grade 5; Middle Schools; Grade 9; High Schools; Junior High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Denmark
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