Residential and school segregation as parameters of educational performance in Athens

The paper explores the relation of educational performance with social and urban inequalities in the Athens Metropolitan Area during the 2000s. It draws on discussions about education as a mechanism of social reproduction and on work about education inequalities in Greece, and in particular in Athen...

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Autores principales: Thomas Maloutas, Stavros Spyrellis, Andromachi Hadjiyanni, Antoinetta Capella, Despoina Valassi
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:cd3792098c15451c826aa834eaea0d2a2021-12-02T11:17:12ZResidential and school segregation as parameters of educational performance in Athens1278-336610.4000/cybergeo.33085https://doaj.org/article/cd3792098c15451c826aa834eaea0d2a2019-10-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/cybergeo/33085https://doaj.org/toc/1278-3366The paper explores the relation of educational performance with social and urban inequalities in the Athens Metropolitan Area during the 2000s. It draws on discussions about education as a mechanism of social reproduction and on work about education inequalities in Greece, and in particular in Athens, where a socially stratified secondary education –compared to the rest of the country– leads to a rather open, but at the same time socially unequal higher education. We analyze how the performance of candidates in the Greek national admissions examination (Panelladikes Exetaseis) relates to the social position of candidates’ families, to the type of secondary schools they attended, to the social profile of candidates’ residential neighborhoods (tentatively) and to their demographic features (age and sex). The object is to illustrate and roughly quantify the function of social reproduction in this socially selective process of transition to higher education.Thomas MaloutasStavros SpyrellisAndromachi HadjiyanniAntoinetta CapellaDespoina ValassiUnité Mixte de Recherche 8504 Géographie-citésarticleeducationeducational geographyinequalityschool segregationresidential segregationGeography (General)G1-922DEENFRITPTCybergeo (2019)
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topic education
educational geography
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residential segregation
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educational geography
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school segregation
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Thomas Maloutas
Stavros Spyrellis
Andromachi Hadjiyanni
Antoinetta Capella
Despoina Valassi
Residential and school segregation as parameters of educational performance in Athens
description The paper explores the relation of educational performance with social and urban inequalities in the Athens Metropolitan Area during the 2000s. It draws on discussions about education as a mechanism of social reproduction and on work about education inequalities in Greece, and in particular in Athens, where a socially stratified secondary education –compared to the rest of the country– leads to a rather open, but at the same time socially unequal higher education. We analyze how the performance of candidates in the Greek national admissions examination (Panelladikes Exetaseis) relates to the social position of candidates’ families, to the type of secondary schools they attended, to the social profile of candidates’ residential neighborhoods (tentatively) and to their demographic features (age and sex). The object is to illustrate and roughly quantify the function of social reproduction in this socially selective process of transition to higher education.
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author Thomas Maloutas
Stavros Spyrellis
Andromachi Hadjiyanni
Antoinetta Capella
Despoina Valassi
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Despoina Valassi
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title Residential and school segregation as parameters of educational performance in Athens
title_short Residential and school segregation as parameters of educational performance in Athens
title_full Residential and school segregation as parameters of educational performance in Athens
title_fullStr Residential and school segregation as parameters of educational performance in Athens
title_full_unstemmed Residential and school segregation as parameters of educational performance in Athens
title_sort residential and school segregation as parameters of educational performance in athens
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