Professor, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
My research has several branches. One examines trajectories of student achievement over several years. With various institutional partners I am compiling data sets that track students from their early years into post secondary levels, and to assess the impact of various interventions in reducing educational inequality. Another branch examines educational organizations, paying attention to the variety of school forms that are emerging at all levels of schooling, including various types of private schools and tutoring businesses, and various public schools of choice. In a third branch, I am attempting to contribute to sociological theories of education, variously interpreting how schooling and society have become more deeply ‘interpenetrated’ over time, charting different forms of cultural capital, and attempting to apply Interaction Ritual Theory to schooling.
Mar 28, 2023 14:10 pm UTC| Insights & Views
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