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Ability-Grouping and Relational Exclusion Within Schools in Chile

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Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance

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Educational segregation; Inequality; Management of student heterogeneity

Introduction

Internationally, the study of educational segregation has addressed various issues, such as estimating the extent of socioeconomic segregation among schools, analyzing its consistency across different school sectors and education levels, investigating its evolution over time, exploring its historical and political roots, examining the sociocultural dynamics that sustain it, and evaluating its impacts on academic achievement levels and educational equity (Dupriez et al. 2023).

Likewise, the vast body of research on educational segregation in Chile has mainly focused on the systematic unequal distribution of students across the school system on the basis of their socioeconomic status. Indeed, the country is considered a paradigmatic and extreme case of socioeconomic school segregation, with magnitudes that have remained relatively stable during the last decades (Valenzuela and Allende 2023)....

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Funding from PIA-CONICYT Basal Funds for Centers of Excellence Project FB0003 is gratefully acknowledged.

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  1. CIAE, Instituto de Estudios Avanzados en Educación (IE), Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile

    Lorena Ortega, Claudio Allende & Juan Pablo Valenzuela

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Ortega, L., Allende, C., Valenzuela, J.P. (2024). Ability-Grouping and Relational Exclusion Within Schools in Chile. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_4390-1

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