The Education Battle: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Spanish Education System

Griera, Maria del Mar

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“…The institution could provide continuity between primary and secondary education, thus calming parents worried about the transition of their 12 year old children from one school to another. Further political successes were the reforms that downplayed low income as a criterion for priority in oversubscribed schools and included infant education in the list of programmes eligible for public subsidies (Bonal, 2000;Griera, 2007).…”

Section: Spain: Struggling and Lobbyingmentioning

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The politics of school choice in two countries with large private‐dependent sectors (Spain and Chile): family strategies, collective action and lobbying

Rambla

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Frías

2011

Journal of Education Policy

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In many countries choice of school is an increasing concern for families and governments. In Spain and Chile, it is also associated with a long‐standing political cleavage on the regulation of large sectors of private‐dependent schools. This article analyses both the micro‐ and the macro‐politics of choice in these two countries, where low‐status 15‐year‐old students record a significant segregation. At the micro level, some evidence is provided that not only middle‐class skilful choosers but also the political representatives of private‐dependent schools manage to pursue their interests drawing on economic, social and cultural capital. At the macro level, evidence also shows that the lobbies defending private‐dependent schools can use and maintain these power resources. However, in some episodes collective action is an effective power resource for those who campaign in favour of a stricter regulation of these schools, but its influence is much difficult to maintain for longer periods

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Section: Spain: Struggling and Lobbyingmentioning

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The politics of school choice in two countries with large private‐dependent sectors (Spain and Chile): family strategies, collective action and lobbying

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Frías

2011

Journal of Education Policy

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“…This interest group operates at all the levels of political decision by pressuring mayors, mobilising middle-class voters, lobbying in the local branches of education departments, sitting in local, regional and state school councils, and spreading opinion on governmental decisions at the autonomous and central levels. Although its core associations are some federations of Catholic school-owners and Catholic parents, sometimes their demonstrations have been supported by wider, popular, Catholic religious demonstrations (Griera, 2007).…”

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The new Other Catalans at school: decreasing unevenness but increasing isolation

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Rambla

2009

International Studies in Sociology of Education

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This study estimates the trends of school segregation in Catalonia (Spain) between 2001 and 2006. Currently, new immigration has reopened the debate about the ‘Other Catalans’ triggered by concern with the integration of the incoming population. An ‘intersectional approach’ to social divisions suggests that class and ethnic school segregation responds to strategic parental choice and informal policy arrangements. School segregation indices report a more even distribution in most localities, reinforced isolation of ‘foreign students’ in a few public schools in some large cities and a persistent divide between more comprehensive public schools and selective private‐dependent schools in a variety of towns. According to these findings, the analytical approach points at some clues to make sense of impact of distributive policies, the influence of policy contradictions and the success of mobilisation and lobbying political strategies

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Religion policy and subnational identity construction in Alsace-Moselle, France, and Catalonia, Spain

Shady

2023

Journal of European Public Policy

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The Education Battle: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Spanish Education System

Cited by 5 publications

References 8 publications

The politics of school choice in two countries with large private‐dependent sectors (Spain and Chile): family strategies, collective action and lobbying

The politics of school choice in two countries with large private‐dependent sectors (Spain and Chile): family strategies, collective action and lobbying

The new Other Catalans at school: decreasing unevenness but increasing isolation

Religion policy and subnational identity construction in Alsace-Moselle, France, and Catalonia, Spain

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