Education, Democracy and Inequality

Bryony Hoskins is Professor of Comparative Social Science at the University of Roehampton, UK. She is an internationally renowned scholar who has conducted groundbreaking research in the field of measuring active citizenship, civic competence and the learning of political engagement. She regularly contributes to policy on Citizenship for a wide range of international organisations. Jan Germen Janmaat is Reader in Comparative Social Science at the UCL Institute of Education, UK. He is interested in the ways in which education, broadly conceived, can promote civic values and social cohesion, and has published widely on these topics. Currently he is co-editor of Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Learning political engagement.- Chapter 3. Access to forms of political learning.- Chapter 4. Social gaps in forms of learning and political engagement: 11-16 year olds in England.- Chapter 5. England in a comparative light: lower secondary.- Chapter 6. Learning political engagement in further and higher education in England.- Chapter 7. The Influence of Post-16 Education on Political Engagement: England Compared to Other States.- Chapter 8. Conclusions and implications for policy and practice