Adrián Zancajo
Biographic Data
| ID | 1506502 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adrián Zancajo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adrián |
| FAMILY NAME | Zancajo |
| SIGNATURE | ZANCAJO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4431-8155 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 103 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Redesigning choice to tackle school segregation
The relationship between school choice and segregation remains a contentious issue in both academic and policy spheres. In recent years, the redesign of school choice policies has gained traction as a strategy to mitigate their negative impacts on school segregation. In this context, Barcelona (Spain) implemented desegregation policies in 2019, primarily based on redesigning specific school choice policy instruments to reduce the uneven distribut…
Examining pro-equity redesigns of educational quasi-markets
Altres ajuts: British Academy (grant number PF22\220003)
Catholic Schools in the Marketplace
Despite controversies surrounding faith-based schooling, religious schools continue to play a prominent role in numerous education systems. Nonetheless, empirical research on nonstate religious schools operating in a market context remains limited and fragmented. On the one hand, while religious and cultural studies investigate the evolution of religious education (RE), they tend to focus on state schools while overlooking the impact of market fo…
Understanding aspirations
The interest in educational and professional aspirations of students transiting to post-secondary education has gained prominence in academic debates and policy agendas internationally. Political interventions for raising aspirations quite often draw on narrow instrumental and rationalistic assumptions of individual decision-making that, as we will argue, do not capture adequately the meanings students attribute to these aspirations. By means of …
Regional policy trajectories in the Spanish education system
Federal and highly decentralized political systems open different spaces to interpret, adapt, and enact international policy trends and ideas within the same territory. Spain, a country with a highly decentralized educational system and contentious territorial politics, is a very suitable case to analyze these dynamics. Spain and its different regions have not been immune to the influence of global policy ideas that gear around promoting private …
The instrumentation of public subsidies for private schools
The availability of public funding for private schools, in both primary and secondary education, has become a common feature in a number of OECD countries. The expansion of public subsidies for privately owned schools has consequences that go far beyond the involvement of private actors in the provision of education. These include deepening forms of regulatory governance in educational systems and the blurring of frontiers between public and priv…
Digitalization and beyond
Education has been extremely affected by the coronavirus disease crisis, with almost all countries temporarily closing their schools in 2020. After the first stage of the pandemic, in which national governments focused on guaranteeing the academic year’s continuity, key international organizations emphasized the need to adopt structural policy reforms to face the challenges posed by the crisis. Based on international and European countries’ polic…
Development paradigms in the institutional configuration of vocational education and training in Chile (1964-2005)
Mainstream approaches in comparative education have paid more attention to trends in donors’ priorities than to policy processes in recipient countries, overlooking the agency of national governments in the institutional configuration of vocational education and training (VET) in developing contexts. Drawing on constructivist political economy and historical institutionalist frameworks, the paper analyses the role played by global development par…
Opting out of neighbourhood schools
Open enrolment policies assume that students living in disadvantaged areas can access better schools outside their neighbourhood. However, characteristics of individuals, quality of schooling and neighbourhood characteristics interact in very complex ways to produce heterogeneous patterns of school choice in local educational markets. This article analyses how the geography of educational opportunities, the socioeconomic background of students' f…
Student mobility and school segregation in an (un)controlled choice system
This article explores the relationship between school choice, student mobility and school segregation in Barcelona. The case of Barcelona is particularly interesting because the school admissions policy combines a particular design of catchment area with a significant level of choice options. We work on students and school register datasets for the school year 2016–2017 to observe the association between the socioeconomic characteristics of the s…
Elección de Escuela, Movilidad y Segregación Escolar del Alumnado Vulnerable en Barcelona
Este artículo analiza la relación entre elección de escuela, movilidad y segregación escolar del alumnado socialmente desfavorecido en Barcelona. Las particularidades del modelo de zonificación escolar de la ciudad, basado en un complejo sistema de elección restringida pero que otorga un amplio número de opciones de proximidad, lo convierten en un caso único en el que observar la relaciones entre movilidad y desigualdades educativas. A partir de …
Education markets and school segregation
Education markets have spread worldwide over the past few decades. Frequently, the expansion of markets in education is presented by their promoters as a means to improve the opportunities of the most socioeconomically disadvantaged students. However, the evidence available shows that market-oriented policies that enhance competition and choice tend to produce negative effects on equity by boosting school segregation and social stratification amo…
The coordination of skill supply and demand in the market model of skill formation
The importance of skill formation for young people and the challenges of youth unemployment and underemployment are at the forefront of global development agendas. However, there is still an open debate about the most adequate policy frameworks to tackle these societal challenges and, particularly, about the role that the state and the market should play in the coordination of skills supply and demand. Taking Chile as a case study, the paper anal…
Residential segregation and school segregation of foreign students in Barcelona
This article examines the dynamics of the relationship between residential and school segregation in Barcelona. The analysis explores which educational and non-educational drivers foster the school segregation of foreign students between the city’s neighbourhoods. The article also analyses to what extent the particularities of Barcelona’s admissions policy, which combines catchment areas with high levels of school choice, generate specific mechan…
Demand rationalities in contexts of poverty
Multiple paths towards education privatization in a globalizing world
Over the last two decades, education privatization has become a widespread phenomenon, affecting most education systems and giving place to a consistent increase in private school enrolment globally. However, far from being a monolithic phenomenon, privatization advances through a variety of context-sensitive policy processes that translate into multiple policy outcomes. This paper aims at understanding why and how education privatization unfolds…
A formação profissional na Espanha
Como resultado da crise econômica de 2008, a taxa de desemprego na Espanha tem aumentado significativamente, especialmente entre os jovens. Neste contexto, a formação profissional tem sido considerada imprescindível para melhorar a empregabilidade das pessoas, auxiliando-as a melhor se inserirem no mercado de trabalho. Este artigo analisa a relação entre a formação profissional e a empregabilidade, na Espanha. Para esta finalidade, discute-se o i…
La economía política de la privatización educativa
A lo largo de las dos ltimas dcadas, la privatizacin educativa ha adquirido una dimensin global. Un amplio nmero de pases en circunstancias polticas y econmicas muy distintas han adoptado polticas que promueven la participacin del sector privado en el campo educativo. El objetivo de este artculo es explorar por qu y cmo estas polticas han avanzado con tanta intensidad. Desde una perspectiva de la economa poltica de la reforma educativa, el artcul…
Multiple paths towards education privatization in a globalizing world
Over the last two decades, education privatization has become a widespread phenomenon, affecting most education systems and giving place to a consistent increase in private school enrolment globally. However, far from being a monolithic phenomenon, privatization advances through a variety of context-sensitive policy processes that translate into multiple policy outcomes. This paper aims at understanding why and how education privatization unfolds…
Education markets and school segregation
Education markets have spread worldwide over the past few decades. Frequently, the expansion of markets in education is presented by their promoters as a means to improve the opportunities of the most socioeconomically disadvantaged students. However, the evidence available shows that market-oriented policies that enhance competition and choice tend to produce negative effects on equity by boosting school segregation and social stratification amo…
Residential segregation and school segregation of foreign students in Barcelona
This article examines the dynamics of the relationship between residential and school segregation in Barcelona. The analysis explores which educational and non-educational drivers foster the school segregation of foreign students between the city’s neighbourhoods. The article also analyses to what extent the particularities of Barcelona’s admissions policy, which combines catchment areas with high levels of school choice, generate specific mechan…
Digitalization and beyond
Education has been extremely affected by the coronavirus disease crisis, with almost all countries temporarily closing their schools in 2020. After the first stage of the pandemic, in which national governments focused on guaranteeing the academic year’s continuity, key international organizations emphasized the need to adopt structural policy reforms to face the challenges posed by the crisis. Based on international and European countries’ polic…
Student mobility and school segregation in an (un)controlled choice system
This article explores the relationship between school choice, student mobility and school segregation in Barcelona. The case of Barcelona is particularly interesting because the school admissions policy combines a particular design of catchment area with a significant level of choice options. We work on students and school register datasets for the school year 2016–2017 to observe the association between the socioeconomic characteristics of the s…
Opting out of neighbourhood schools
Open enrolment policies assume that students living in disadvantaged areas can access better schools outside their neighbourhood. However, characteristics of individuals, quality of schooling and neighbourhood characteristics interact in very complex ways to produce heterogeneous patterns of school choice in local educational markets. This article analyses how the geography of educational opportunities, the socioeconomic background of students' f…
Elección de Escuela, Movilidad y Segregación Escolar del Alumnado Vulnerable en Barcelona
Este artículo analiza la relación entre elección de escuela, movilidad y segregación escolar del alumnado socialmente desfavorecido en Barcelona. Las particularidades del modelo de zonificación escolar de la ciudad, basado en un complejo sistema de elección restringida pero que otorga un amplio número de opciones de proximidad, lo convierten en un caso único en el que observar la relaciones entre movilidad y desigualdades educativas. A partir de …
Demand rationalities in contexts of poverty
The coordination of skill supply and demand in the market model of skill formation
The importance of skill formation for young people and the challenges of youth unemployment and underemployment are at the forefront of global development agendas. However, there is still an open debate about the most adequate policy frameworks to tackle these societal challenges and, particularly, about the role that the state and the market should play in the coordination of skills supply and demand. Taking Chile as a case study, the paper anal…
La economía política de la privatización educativa
A lo largo de las dos ltimas dcadas, la privatizacin educativa ha adquirido una dimensin global. Un amplio nmero de pases en circunstancias polticas y econmicas muy distintas han adoptado polticas que promueven la participacin del sector privado en el campo educativo. El objetivo de este artculo es explorar por qu y cmo estas polticas han avanzado con tanta intensidad. Desde una perspectiva de la economa poltica de la reforma educativa, el artcul…
Examining pro-equity redesigns of educational quasi-markets
Altres ajuts: British Academy (grant number PF22\220003)
A formação profissional na Espanha
Como resultado da crise econômica de 2008, a taxa de desemprego na Espanha tem aumentado significativamente, especialmente entre os jovens. Neste contexto, a formação profissional tem sido considerada imprescindível para melhorar a empregabilidade das pessoas, auxiliando-as a melhor se inserirem no mercado de trabalho. Este artigo analisa a relação entre a formação profissional e a empregabilidade, na Espanha. Para esta finalidade, discute-se o i…
La economía política de la privatización educativa
A lo largo de las dos ltimas dcadas, la privatizacin educativa ha adquirido una dimensin global. Un amplio nmero de pases en circunstancias polticas y econmicas muy distintas han adoptado polticas que promueven la participacin del sector privado en el campo educativo. El objetivo de este artculo es explorar por qu y cmo estas polticas han avanzado con tanta intensidad. Desde una perspectiva de la economa poltica de la reforma educativa, el artcul…
Multiple paths towards education privatization in a globalizing world
Over the last two decades, education privatization has become a widespread phenomenon, affecting most education systems and giving place to a consistent increase in private school enrolment globally. However, far from being a monolithic phenomenon, privatization advances through a variety of context-sensitive policy processes that translate into multiple policy outcomes. This paper aims at understanding why and how education privatization unfolds…
Demand rationalities in contexts of poverty
Residential segregation and school segregation of foreign students in Barcelona
This article examines the dynamics of the relationship between residential and school segregation in Barcelona. The analysis explores which educational and non-educational drivers foster the school segregation of foreign students between the city’s neighbourhoods. The article also analyses to what extent the particularities of Barcelona’s admissions policy, which combines catchment areas with high levels of school choice, generate specific mechan…
Elección de Escuela, Movilidad y Segregación Escolar del Alumnado Vulnerable en Barcelona
Este artículo analiza la relación entre elección de escuela, movilidad y segregación escolar del alumnado socialmente desfavorecido en Barcelona. Las particularidades del modelo de zonificación escolar de la ciudad, basado en un complejo sistema de elección restringida pero que otorga un amplio número de opciones de proximidad, lo convierten en un caso único en el que observar la relaciones entre movilidad y desigualdades educativas. A partir de …
Education markets and school segregation
Education markets have spread worldwide over the past few decades. Frequently, the expansion of markets in education is presented by their promoters as a means to improve the opportunities of the most socioeconomically disadvantaged students. However, the evidence available shows that market-oriented policies that enhance competition and choice tend to produce negative effects on equity by boosting school segregation and social stratification amo…
The coordination of skill supply and demand in the market model of skill formation
The importance of skill formation for young people and the challenges of youth unemployment and underemployment are at the forefront of global development agendas. However, there is still an open debate about the most adequate policy frameworks to tackle these societal challenges and, particularly, about the role that the state and the market should play in the coordination of skills supply and demand. Taking Chile as a case study, the paper anal…
Development paradigms in the institutional configuration of vocational education and training in Chile (1964-2005)
Mainstream approaches in comparative education have paid more attention to trends in donors’ priorities than to policy processes in recipient countries, overlooking the agency of national governments in the institutional configuration of vocational education and training (VET) in developing contexts. Drawing on constructivist political economy and historical institutionalist frameworks, the paper analyses the role played by global development par…
Opting out of neighbourhood schools
Open enrolment policies assume that students living in disadvantaged areas can access better schools outside their neighbourhood. However, characteristics of individuals, quality of schooling and neighbourhood characteristics interact in very complex ways to produce heterogeneous patterns of school choice in local educational markets. This article analyses how the geography of educational opportunities, the socioeconomic background of students' f…
Student mobility and school segregation in an (un)controlled choice system
This article explores the relationship between school choice, student mobility and school segregation in Barcelona. The case of Barcelona is particularly interesting because the school admissions policy combines a particular design of catchment area with a significant level of choice options. We work on students and school register datasets for the school year 2016–2017 to observe the association between the socioeconomic characteristics of the s…
The instrumentation of public subsidies for private schools
The availability of public funding for private schools, in both primary and secondary education, has become a common feature in a number of OECD countries. The expansion of public subsidies for privately owned schools has consequences that go far beyond the involvement of private actors in the provision of education. These include deepening forms of regulatory governance in educational systems and the blurring of frontiers between public and priv…
Digitalization and beyond
Education has been extremely affected by the coronavirus disease crisis, with almost all countries temporarily closing their schools in 2020. After the first stage of the pandemic, in which national governments focused on guaranteeing the academic year’s continuity, key international organizations emphasized the need to adopt structural policy reforms to face the challenges posed by the crisis. Based on international and European countries’ polic…
Understanding aspirations
The interest in educational and professional aspirations of students transiting to post-secondary education has gained prominence in academic debates and policy agendas internationally. Political interventions for raising aspirations quite often draw on narrow instrumental and rationalistic assumptions of individual decision-making that, as we will argue, do not capture adequately the meanings students attribute to these aspirations. By means of …
Regional policy trajectories in the Spanish education system
Federal and highly decentralized political systems open different spaces to interpret, adapt, and enact international policy trends and ideas within the same territory. Spain, a country with a highly decentralized educational system and contentious territorial politics, is a very suitable case to analyze these dynamics. Spain and its different regions have not been immune to the influence of global policy ideas that gear around promoting private …
Catholic Schools in the Marketplace
Despite controversies surrounding faith-based schooling, religious schools continue to play a prominent role in numerous education systems. Nonetheless, empirical research on nonstate religious schools operating in a market context remains limited and fragmented. On the one hand, while religious and cultural studies investigate the evolution of religious education (RE), they tend to focus on state schools while overlooking the impact of market fo…
Examining pro-equity redesigns of educational quasi-markets
Altres ajuts: British Academy (grant number PF22\220003)
Redesigning choice to tackle school segregation
The relationship between school choice and segregation remains a contentious issue in both academic and policy spheres. In recent years, the redesign of school choice policies has gained traction as a strategy to mitigate their negative impacts on school segregation. In this context, Barcelona (Spain) implemented desegregation policies in 2019, primarily based on redesigning specific school choice policy instruments to reduce the uneven distribut…
Political science (16 works) · Economics (12 works) · Economic growth (11 works) · School Choice and Performance (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · School choice (6 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Business (4 works)