Structural and systemic dimensions of school segregation in French-speaking Belgium

Notwithstanding more than a century of policies aimed at school democratisation, the education system in French-speaking Belgium is characterised by the persistence of sharp social inequalities in outcomes. These inequalities reflect considerable phenomena of segregation observed between streams and between schools (Lafontaine, 2005; Lafontaine et al., 2003; Jacobs et al., 2009). The structural causes of this situation are well documented in the literature (see in particular Lafontaine and Monseur, 2011; Dumay, Dupriez and Maroy, 2010; Danhier et al., 2014) and researchers generally agree that... Mehr ...