World Yearbook of Education 2027

The World Yearbook of Education 2027 offers a timely and critical analysis of school segregation trends and how these have risen, fallen, or plateaued amid the growing marketization of education worldwide.

This key volume examines how school segregation by social class, race, gender and disability can hinder efforts to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in schools and contrasts it with how marketization has been recommended by some policymakers as a way to reduce school segregation by providing wider access. Bringing together established and up-and-coming scholars from across the world to present the research and provide a detailed analysis, this book considers how schooling can be made more equitable and inclusive worldwide. It outlines key concepts, trend analysis, and the “markets-within-markets” framework to advance a more complex and sophisticated understanding of the relationships between the marketization of education and school segregation. It traces the patterns of over a 20 year period across more than 50 countries and provides 13 detailed case studies that examine the extent to which marketization plays a role in school segregation to build theory about the impact of marketization on school segregation based on the cumulative research.

This important and timely book is a must-read for policymakers and educational researchers or anyone passionate about creating more inclusive schools and futures for all, especially for those who have been historically excluded and left behind.