The Geography of Education: Introduction
The Geography of Education: Introduction
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10.1080/00420980701329174
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发表时间：
2007-06
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4.7
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T. Butler;C. Hamnett
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作者：
T. Butler;C. Hamnett
近年来，教育已成为许多西方国家的重大政治和政策问题。 1997年当选英国首相时，托尼·布莱尔表示他的首要任务是“教育、教育、教育”。忽略原声摘要，考虑到他本可以将健康、社会凝聚力、就业或经济增长作为他的首要任务，所以对教育的关注意义重大。原因可以说是布莱尔和工党政府认识到教育是长期经济增长和减少社会不平等和劣势的关键（SEU，2001）。辩论集中在几个不同的问题上，包括国民教育程度的比较、不同社会和种族群体之间教育程度的差异、教育在社会排斥中的作用、促进社会融合和流动性、改变教育标准的问题以及西方发达国家确保拥有受过高等教育和技术熟练的劳动力的需要。鉴于西方国家绝大多数人口都是城市人口，许多辩论都具有很强的城市维度，特别是在教育提供的地理、学校社会结构、成就和不平等方面。教育处于或接近促进社会融合、社会流动性和国家竞争力以及减少社会排斥的政策的核心。教育机会和成就长期以来
Education has become a major political and policy issue in many Western countries in recent years. When elected British Prime Minister in 1997, Tony Blair stated that his priorities were ‘Education, education, education’. Ignoring the sound bites, and given that he could have identified health, social cohesion, employment or economic growth as his priority, the focus on education is significant. The reason is arguably that Blair, and the Labour government, realised that education is key to long-term economic growth and to reducing social inequality and disadvantage (SEU, 2001).The debates have focused around several different issues including the level of comparative national educational attainment, variations in attainment between different social and ethnic groups, the role of education in social exclusion, fostering social integration and mobility, questions of changing educational standards and the need for developed Western countries to ensure that they have a highly educated and skilled work force. Given that the great majority of the populations of Western countries are urban, many of these debates have a strong urban dimension, particularly in terms of the geographies of educational provision, school social mix, attainment and inequality. Education is at or near the heart of policies for fostering greater social integration, social mobility and national competitiveness and reducing social exclusion. Educational opportunity and attainment have for long been