‘Good’ Education as a ‘Club Good’: The Unequal Worlds of Bulgarian School
‘Good’ Education as a ‘Club Good’: The Unequal Worlds of Bulgarian School

Summary/Abstract: On the basis of data from a field study carried out under the research project Educational Inequalities and Social Opportunities. Strategic Objectives of the Reforms in Bulgarian Secondary Education and Practical Results, financed by the Bulgarian National Science Fund at the Ministry of Education and Science, this article problematizes (1) the basic structural mechanisms of institutional organization of the current system of Bulgarian school education which are a precondition for education to reproduce and deepen social inequalities instead of emancipating young people from their social origin, as well as (2) the ideological formulas that legitimize them. In conclusion, (3) I formulate options for resolving the problem of inequalities in education at the level of the system and at the level of the actions and interactions of social actors within it.

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