Resisting Education: A Cross-National Study on Systems and School Effects

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This book focuses on how school-level features affect student resistance to education from a comparative angle, taking into account cross-national differences. All over the world, policy makers, school administrators, teachers, and parents are dealing with students who resist education. Resisting school might ultimately lead to unqualified dropout, and it is therefore crucial to understand what triggers resistance in students. The book uses the ISCY data set to study multilevel questions in detail. It does so based on the view that system effects and school effects intertwine: system-level policy measures affect student outcomes in part by shaping school-level features, and school effects may differ according to certain system-level features. We start from an overarching theoretical framework that ties the various city-specific insights together, and contains empirical studies from Barcelona, Bergen, Ghent, Montréal Reykjavik, Sacramento, and Turku. It shows that, in all countries, the act of resisting school is more likely to occur among the socio-economically disadvantaged, and those in the most disadvantaged schools. However, educational system features, including tracking, free school choice, and school autonomy, are important driving factors of the differences between schools. As such, systems have the tools to curb between-school differences in resistance. Previous research turns resistance into a problem of individual students. However, if school or system features engender resistance to school, policy initiatives directed at individual students may solve the problem only partially. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvi Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 School Effects on Deviance: An International Perspective (Jannick Demanet, Mieke Van Houtte)....Pages 3-26 Understanding Student Misconduct in Urban Schools: Is There a Need for a Cross-National Approach? (Sophie Pascal, Michel Janosz, Isabelle Archambault, Marie-Christine Brault)....Pages 27-50 Front Matter ....Pages 51-51 The Effects of 21st Century Skills on Behavioral Disengagement in Sacramento High Schools (Gregory J. Palardy, Russell W. Rumberger)....Pages 53-80 Student Disengagement in Comprehensive School in Turku, Southwest Finland (Tero Järvinen, Jenni Tikkanen)....Pages 81-102 School Misconduct in a Unified System: Norwegian 10th Graders in Bergen (Thea Bertnes Strømme)....Pages 103-116 Student Disengagement in Inclusive Icelandic Education: A Question of School Effect in Reykjavík (Kristjana Stella Blondal, Jón Torfi Jónasson, Atli Hafthórsson)....Pages 117-133 Socioeconomic School Composition and School Misconduct: Disentangling Structural and Cultural Explanations in Ghent (Jannick Demanet, Laura Van den Broeck, Mieke Van Houtte)....Pages 135-153 A Multilevel Analysis of Student School Misconduct in High Schools: Investigating the Role of School Socioeconomic Composition and Teacher Culture in Montréal (Marie-Christine Brault, Véronique Dupéré, Michel Janosz, Sophie Pascal, Isabelle Archambault, Nathan Yerg)....Pages 155-175 Bad Schools or Bad Pupils? School Effects on Misbehaviour in Barcelona (Rafael Merino Pareja, Dani Torrents Vilà)....Pages 177-194 Front Matter ....Pages 195-195 Resisting Education: Do Schools and Systems Matter? (Jannick Demanet, Mieke Van Houtte)....Pages 197-208