EDUCATION AND SOCIO-SPATIAL CLOSURE: TWO CASES OF POPULAR PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN ANKARA

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2023-1-9

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Gürtunca, Aslı

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The study, focusing on school as a locus of social exclusion, questions the persistence of inequalities in education, more specifically public school differentiation regarding educational quality and prestige. Contrary to the studies which regard school segregation as a result of families’ different school choices according to their social class positions with a demand-oriented approach, the study intends to include educational supply equally in the explanation developed to address educational inequalities. Its focus on school allows this, also to include the spatial dimension of educational inequalities in the analysis due to the fact that school is where these two meet geographically. The empirical focus of the study is on popular public middle schools which receive high demand out of their enrolment areas. Based on the empirical findings of field research conducted in two public middle schools located in two districts of Ankara, the thesis argues that public school differentiation is a joint product of school principals, teachers and parents. While investigating the strategies and actions of the parents who send their children to these public schools in the distance with a purpose of accessing better quality education, the study contextualizes parents’ strategies institutionally and spatially. Making use of Bourdieu’s field theory for this purpose, the study uncovers the relationality between the actions of actors and structural inequalities in creation of inequalities within schools, and develops the concept of socio-spatial closure to conceptualize the spatiality of educational inequalities created through the interplay between structure and agency.

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Education, Access to education, Social exclusion, Closure, Ankara

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A. Gürtunca, “EDUCATION AND SOCIO-SPATIAL CLOSURE: TWO CASES OF POPULAR PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN ANKARA,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2023.