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Inequality, Poverty and Education in the Post-Yugoslav Space: from immobility to inclusion?

The paper focuses on education from a social justice perspective. The paper starts with a case study of media coverage following the President of Croatia’s daughter gaining a place to study as an undergraduate at Harvard University. The next section looks historically at studies of education and mobility in socialist Yugoslavia. Section three turns to an overview of research on educational inequality in the post-Yugoslav space, surveying a literature that leaves us with more questions than answers. I then focus on my own research on child poverty and household coping strategies in Croatia before ending with some thoughts on whether another education - education otherwise - is possible, one that is not only or primarily about neoliberal skills or nationalist values, but which promotes equal opportunities, social mobility and social inclusion, borrowing, in particular, from the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Paolo Freire.

education, mobility, post-Yugoslav space

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