Social Inequalities in Access to Higher Education in Croatia: Five Decades of Resilient Findings

Autor/inn/en	Doolan, Karin; Puzic, Saša; Baranovic, Branislava
Titel	Social Inequalities in Access to Higher Education in Croatia: Five Decades of Resilient Findings
Quelle	In: Journal of Further and Higher Education, 42 (2018) 4, S.467-481 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0309-877X
DOI	10.1080/0309877X.2017.1281891
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Access to Education; Higher Education; Social Justice; Disadvantaged; Literature Reviews; Parent Background; College Choice; Educational History; Educational Trends; Educational Policy; Failure; Socioeconomic Influences; Croatia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Elternhaus; Studienortwahl; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Bildungsentwicklung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Kroatien
Abstract	This article provides a panoramic view of research findings on social inequalities in access to higher education in Croatia since the 1960s, guided by the question of what has changed in the findings. Our review shows that there is stark continuity over the last five decades: students from better educated family backgrounds tend to be overrepresented in higher education; students from better educated and white-collar family backgrounds are more likely to enrol in academic as opposed to professional study courses; students at one Croatian university in particular stand out in terms of their more privileged social background; and medicine seems to be the prime academic field for observing social reproduction. We note that these persistent findings run parallel to a dramatically changing political, economic and social context in Croatia, including transformations in the 1990s resulting from social ownership of the means of production to widespread private ownership, as well as transformations from a one-party political system to the establishment of a multi-party political system. The article maps possible theoretical explanations for the resilience of social inequalities in access to higher education in the context of dynamic times. It also questions the role of educational policies in this process. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01