Understanding School Segregation

Xavier Bonal is Professor of Sociology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) Spain and Special Professor in Education and International Development at the University of Amsterdam the Netherlands. He is Director of the Globalisation Education and Social Policies (GEPS) research group of the Department of Sociology of the UAB and a founding member of the Interdisciplinary Group on Educational Policies. He is the coordinator of Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree on Education Policies for Global Development (GLOBED). Cristián Bellei is Associate Researcher at the Center for Advanced Research in Education and Professor in the Sociology Department both at the University of Chile Chile. He previously worked at the Chilean Ministry of Education and UNICEF in Chile; he has also been a consultant for UNESCO the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. He is the author of The Great Experiment: Market and Privatization of Chilean Education (2015). . Language: English