Xavier Bonal
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 247761 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Xavier Bonal |
| NOMBRES | Xavier |
| APELLIDO | Bonal |
| FIRMA | BONAL X |
| AFILIACIONES | Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0625-0951 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 168 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1995 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Private schools, gentrification and escape circuits
The relationship between private education and social inequality has long been central to academic and policy debates. While private schools are often justified as mechanisms to diversify provision and accommodate parental preferences, extensive evidence shows that they also contribute to school segregation and the reproduction of privilege. This article examines how urban transformations – specifically gentrification – reshape the determinants o…
Social inequalities and study choices
Despite the global expansion of higher education, studies show that merit-based admission systems do not necessarily eliminate social inequalities. Instead, they may reproduce barriers to entry or widen horizontal gaps linked to prestige and quality hierarchies among institutions and degrees. In 2012, Ecuador introduced a higher education reform that established a single admission system based on standardized test scores and secondary school grad…
The spatially uneven effects of a desegregation education policy
The spatial, institutional and social configurations of school supply and demand are crucial aspects in understanding the various mechanisms of production and reproduction of socio-spatial inequalities in education. The same policy instruments may have different effects depending on the characteristics of local education markets and the dynamics of supply and demand in each of them. This article investigates how a policy designed to reduce school…
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 …
Fragmented spaces in the urban landscape
The geography of school choice critically shapes families’ educational opportunities. Residential segregation, social inequalities and the educational marketplace interact in complex ways and produce spatialised educational opportunities for families. This paper analyses the link between these dimensions and how they structure families’ educational opportunities in the city of Madrid. Based on several administrative datasets that capture students…
Cuadernos para la Coeducación
El interés por la coeducación comenzó a manifestarse en España hacia los años ochenta. Maestras, profesoras, también algunos maestros, empezaron a preguntarse cómo conseguir que, más allá de la escuela mixta, la educación de niñas y niños fuera igualitaria, algo que sabíamos que no sucedía, pero que era difícil imaginar. Debido a este interés y demandas del profesorado comenzamos a pensar cómo hacer real la coeducación, y, para empezar, cómo apre…
An integral model of cultural reproduction
Existing quantitative studies use various measurements and methods to examine Bourdieu's theory of cultural reproduction in the field of education. Yet, most studies either misunderstand the concepts involved or only test part of the theory. This article addresses these gaps by using the 'structure-disposition-practice' (SDP) framework to develop an integral model of cultural reproduction and it constructs a more precise measurement of habitus. I…
Covid‐19 school closures and cumulative disadvantage
Reducing physical contact has been the most common strategy adopted by governments to reduce the spread of the COVID‐19 disease. It has led most countries to close their schools. Previous evidence on the effects of teacher strikes, summer holidays, armed conflicts or any other cause of school closure on learning suggest that the effects of COVID‐19 will be highly significant for some and will vary depending on students' previous performance, fami…
Educación formal e informal en confinamiento
El cierre de escuelas en Cataluña para contener los efectos de la COVID-19 obligó a las escuelas y las familias a reaccionar en poco tiempo y sin planificación previa ante un nuevo escenario de enseñanza. Este artículo evalúa el impacto del cierre escolar sobre la desigualdad de aprendizaje entre niños de diferentes contextos sociales en Cataluña. A partir de los datos de una encuesta en línea realizada entre el 26 y el 30 de marzo (n = 35.419) a…
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 impact of lockdown on the learning gap
Understanding School Segregation
During recent decades, social inequalities have increased in many urban spaces in the globalized world, and education has not been immune to these tendencies. Urban segregation, migration movements and education policies themselves have produced an increasing process of school segregation between the most disadvantaged social groups and the middle classes. Exploring school segregation patterns in Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, England, France…
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
Is Education for Sustainable Development the means to bring about inclusive development? Between idealist and alternative positions
Incentivos a la demanda y racionalidades de elección escolar
Durante las últimas décadas hemos sido testigos de un creciente protagonismo de las políticas educativas centradas en la demanda para mejorar el acceso y las condiciones de escolarización de los pobres. Entre ellas, las políticas de voucher o bono escolar han desempeñado un papel destacado como mecanismo para mejorar la elección de escuela y la competencia entre los centros escolares. Los actores que abogan por es t as políticas y las impulsan, c…
Meeting development goals
In recent years, the Civil Society Education Fund has supported national education civil society coalitions (NECs) in low-income countries so that they put pressure on governments and donors to implement the Education for All agenda and the Millennium Development Goal on education. This article draws on literature on global governance as well as on an extensive evaluation of the CSEF to explore the actual contribution of this initiative to the ac…
Mitos Y Asunciones De Las Escuelas Chárter
Los Colegios en Concesión (CEC) son un programa de escuelas chárter que se implementa en Colombia desde el año 1999. A pesar de su modesta expansión (72 escuelas, 107.000 alumnos), los CEC disfrutan de un amplio reconocimiento internacional tanto académico como político (p.ej., por parte del Banco Mundial o el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo), y son considerados como un modelo paradigmático y en gran medida exitoso de escuelas chárter. Basado …
Privatización educativa y globalización
Privatización educativa y globalización: una realidad poliédrica
Private actors and the right to education
Privatisation of education is on the rise, being offered as the best alternative to achieve universal education and improve its quality and cost-efficiency. However, the benefits of the entry of pr
Being poor at school
This article explores how different ways of experiencing poverty affect the possibilities of poor children to make the most of their education. The study uses the concept of conditions of educability to reflect how the different dimensions of the experience of poverty facilitate or hinder the success of educational practices and the learning of poor students. In the first part of the article, the concept of conditions of educability is discussed …
Education policy and school segregation of migrant students in Catalonia
This article shows how the Catalan government has not developed an agenda to tackle school segregation despite the growing number of migrant pupils who arrived over the course of the last decade. Education policy has explicitly disregarded the possibilities of improving the regulatory framework for tackling segregation; it has exercised insufficient control over the effective application of education regulations on the balanced schooling of pupil…
The impact of lockdown on the learning gap
The Neoliberal Educational Agenda and the Legitimation Crisis
In the context of globalisation and hegemonic neoliberalism, the state's ability to legitimate the economic system and its own policies cannot be assumed as a positive automatic effect. The economic and political conditions that once framed state action have changed, and it is reasonable to think that the emergence of a new accumulation regime implies also a shift in the traditional strategies used by the nation-state to legitimate its policy-mak…
Captured by the Totally Pedagogised Society
This paper makes use of one of the last concepts developed by Basil Bernstein (the Totally Pedagogised Society, TPS) to understand some of the forces and contradictions underlying today's teachers' work in Spain. In his last written work, Bernstein (2001) pointed out some arguments to illustrate the emergence of a TPS. Always interested in uncovering the sociological basis of pedagogy, Bernstein refers to the TPS as a society that introduces peda…
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…
Education policy and school segregation of migrant students in Catalonia
This article shows how the Catalan government has not developed an agenda to tackle school segregation despite the growing number of migrant pupils who arrived over the course of the last decade. Education policy has explicitly disregarded the possibilities of improving the regulatory framework for tackling segregation; it has exercised insufficient control over the effective application of education regulations on the balanced schooling of pupil…
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…
Interest groups and the State in contemporary Spanish education policy
This paper analyses the role of educational interest groups in the context of current educational policy in Spain. The paper focuses on the historical and structural factors that are the basis for understanding the constitution of educational interests. It argues that the historical educational dualism and the political opposition between public and private education explains not only the emergence and political position of each educational actor…
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 …
Is the World Bank education policy adequate for fighting poverty? Some evidence from Latin America
Globalización y política educativa
Xavier Bonal, Globalización y política educativa: un análisis crítico de la agenda del Banco Mundial para América Latina (Globalization and Education Policy: A Critical Analysis of the World Bank's Agenda for Latin America), Revista Mexicana de Sociología, Vol. 64, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 2002), pp. 3-35
Demand rationalities in contexts of poverty
On global absences
Curriculum Change as a Form of Educational Policy Legitimation
This paper examines how the main changes in the last Spanish Educational Reform become new forms of state educational control. The article introduces a specific sociological perspective to analyse these changes in semiperipheral social formations. Macro‐contradictions embedded in the process of mass schooling in Spain draw a framework to understand the context and the logics of curriculum change. The extremely acute state legitimation crisis in s…
Fragmented spaces in the urban landscape
The geography of school choice critically shapes families’ educational opportunities. Residential segregation, social inequalities and the educational marketplace interact in complex ways and produce spatialised educational opportunities for families. This paper analyses the link between these dimensions and how they structure families’ educational opportunities in the city of Madrid. Based on several administrative datasets that capture students…
An integral model of cultural reproduction
Existing quantitative studies use various measurements and methods to examine Bourdieu's theory of cultural reproduction in the field of education. Yet, most studies either misunderstand the concepts involved or only test part of the theory. This article addresses these gaps by using the 'structure-disposition-practice' (SDP) framework to develop an integral model of cultural reproduction and it constructs a more precise measurement of habitus. I…
Being poor at school
This article explores how different ways of experiencing poverty affect the possibilities of poor children to make the most of their education. The study uses the concept of conditions of educability to reflect how the different dimensions of the experience of poverty facilitate or hinder the success of educational practices and the learning of poor students. In the first part of the article, the concept of conditions of educability is discussed …
La educación en tiempos de globalización
Las políticas educativas desarrolladas en el contexto del auge del neoliberalismo económico asumen una serie de efectos beneficiosos para el crecimiento económico y la igualdad de oportunidades educativas. Su hegemonía a lo largo de los últimos años, con un especial protagonismo del Banco Mundial, se ha traducido en su extensión en diversas partes del globo, y especialmente en los países en vías de desarrollo. Dichas políticas se presentan como r…
Is Education for Sustainable Development the means to bring about inclusive development? Between idealist and alternative positions
Meeting development goals
In recent years, the Civil Society Education Fund has supported national education civil society coalitions (NECs) in low-income countries so that they put pressure on governments and donors to implement the Education for All agenda and the Millennium Development Goal on education. This article draws on literature on global governance as well as on an extensive evaluation of the CSEF to explore the actual contribution of this initiative to the ac…
Mitos Y Asunciones De Las Escuelas Chárter
Los Colegios en Concesión (CEC) son un programa de escuelas chárter que se implementa en Colombia desde el año 1999. A pesar de su modesta expansión (72 escuelas, 107.000 alumnos), los CEC disfrutan de un amplio reconocimiento internacional tanto académico como político (p.ej., por parte del Banco Mundial o el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo), y son considerados como un modelo paradigmático y en gran medida exitoso de escuelas chárter. Basado …
"La estrategia educativa 2020 o las limitaciones del Banco Mundial para promover el "aprendizaje para todos
LA NUEVA Estrategia Educativa 2020 del Banco Mundial establece las prioridades de reforma educativa en países en vías de desarrollo para la década siguiente. El título explícito de la estrategia, Aprendizaje para Todos, es un claro reconocimiento de que, más allá de políticas centradas en el acceso, se debe hacer algo más para asegurar que la educación derive en experiencias positivas de aprendizaje. Sin embargo, como este artículo sostiene, las …
The recontextualisation process of educational diversity
This article explores the recontextualisation process of educational diversity in the context of recent educational policy changes in Spain. The article, based on Bernstein's theory of the structuring of pedagogic discourse, argues that the concept of educational diversity can be understood as a pedagogic device structured by a set of rules which regulate the distribution and understanding of its possible meanings. The analysis is based on an emp…
Curriculum Change as a Form of Educational Policy Legitimation
This paper examines how the main changes in the last Spanish Educational Reform become new forms of state educational control. The article introduces a specific sociological perspective to analyse these changes in semiperipheral social formations. Macro‐contradictions embedded in the process of mass schooling in Spain draw a framework to understand the context and the logics of curriculum change. The extremely acute state legitimation crisis in s…
El profesorado y el cambio educativo. Consideraciones teóricas y metodológicas
Les teories dominants en sociologia de l’educació no aconsegueixen resoldre interrogants fonamentals per explicar el canvi educatiu, tant en relació amb l’origen del canvi com pel que fa al paper dels agents educatius en aquest procés. Les aportacions de la teoria de les resistències permeten conceptualitzar teòricament el paper del professorat en els processos de canvi, però presenten limitacions metodològiques importants, les quals poden ser re…
The recontextualisation process of educational diversity
This article explores the recontextualisation process of educational diversity in the context of recent educational policy changes in Spain. The article, based on Bernstein's theory of the structuring of pedagogic discourse, argues that the concept of educational diversity can be understood as a pedagogic device structured by a set of rules which regulate the distribution and understanding of its possible meanings. The analysis is based on an emp…
Interest groups and the State in contemporary Spanish education policy
This paper analyses the role of educational interest groups in the context of current educational policy in Spain. The paper focuses on the historical and structural factors that are the basis for understanding the constitution of educational interests. It argues that the historical educational dualism and the political opposition between public and private education explains not only the emergence and political position of each educational actor…
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Gats and the Education Service Industry
One consequence of the hype around globalization and education and debates on global political actors such as the World Bank, IMF and WTO-is that there has not been sufficient attention paid by education theorists to the development of a rigorous set of analytic categories that might enable us to make sense of the profound changes which now characterize education in the new millennium. 1 This is not a problema confined to education. Writing in th…
Plus ca change …the world bank global education policy and the post-washington consensus
For the last two decades the World Bank (WB) has increased its economic and ideological influence in setting the educational policy agenda of the so-called less developed countries (LDC). The economic crisis of two poor regions of the world in the 1980s (Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America), the reduction of bilateral forms of educational aid, and the economic and political protagonism of the WB through Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs), a…
Globalización y política educativa
Xavier Bonal, Globalización y política educativa: un análisis crítico de la agenda del Banco Mundial para América Latina (Globalization and Education Policy: A Critical Analysis of the World Bank's Agenda for Latin America), Revista Mexicana de Sociología, Vol. 64, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 2002), pp. 3-35
Captured by the Totally Pedagogised Society
This paper makes use of one of the last concepts developed by Basil Bernstein (the Totally Pedagogised Society, TPS) to understand some of the forces and contradictions underlying today's teachers' work in Spain. In his last written work, Bernstein (2001) pointed out some arguments to illustrate the emergence of a TPS. Always interested in uncovering the sociological basis of pedagogy, Bernstein refers to the TPS as a society that introduces peda…
The Neoliberal Educational Agenda and the Legitimation Crisis
In the context of globalisation and hegemonic neoliberalism, the state's ability to legitimate the economic system and its own policies cannot be assumed as a positive automatic effect. The economic and political conditions that once framed state action have changed, and it is reasonable to think that the emergence of a new accumulation regime implies also a shift in the traditional strategies used by the nation-state to legitimate its policy-mak…
Is the World Bank education policy adequate for fighting poverty? Some evidence from Latin America
Movimientos en el escenario global
En este artículo pretendemos incidir en los repertorios de acción colectiva desencadenados a raíz de la creación de la OMC y del establecimiento de uno de sus acuerdos más polémicos por sus efectos en los sistemas educativos y en otros servicios públicos: elAcuerdo General de Comercio de Servicios —AGCS—. Para llevarlo a cabo hemos considerado varias perspectivas teóricas con las que responder, de la manera más adecuada posible, a diferentes prob…
On global absences
La educación en tiempos de globalización
Las políticas educativas desarrolladas en el contexto del auge del neoliberalismo económico asumen una serie de efectos beneficiosos para el crecimiento económico y la igualdad de oportunidades educativas. Su hegemonía a lo largo de los últimos años, con un especial protagonismo del Banco Mundial, se ha traducido en su extensión en diversas partes del globo, y especialmente en los países en vías de desarrollo. Dichas políticas se presentan como r…
"La estrategia educativa 2020 o las limitaciones del Banco Mundial para promover el "aprendizaje para todos
LA NUEVA Estrategia Educativa 2020 del Banco Mundial establece las prioridades de reforma educativa en países en vías de desarrollo para la década siguiente. El título explícito de la estrategia, Aprendizaje para Todos, es un claro reconocimiento de que, más allá de políticas centradas en el acceso, se debe hacer algo más para asegurar que la educación derive en experiencias positivas de aprendizaje. Sin embargo, como este artículo sostiene, las …
Education policy and school segregation of migrant students in Catalonia
This article shows how the Catalan government has not developed an agenda to tackle school segregation despite the growing number of migrant pupils who arrived over the course of the last decade. Education policy has explicitly disregarded the possibilities of improving the regulatory framework for tackling segregation; it has exercised insufficient control over the effective application of education regulations on the balanced schooling of pupil…
Privatización educativa y globalización
Privatización educativa y globalización: una realidad poliédrica
Private actors and the right to education
Privatisation of education is on the rise, being offered as the best alternative to achieve universal education and improve its quality and cost-efficiency. However, the benefits of the entry of pr
Being poor at school
This article explores how different ways of experiencing poverty affect the possibilities of poor children to make the most of their education. The study uses the concept of conditions of educability to reflect how the different dimensions of the experience of poverty facilitate or hinder the success of educational practices and the learning of poor students. In the first part of the article, the concept of conditions of educability is discussed …
Is Education for Sustainable Development the means to bring about inclusive development? Between idealist and alternative positions
Incentivos a la demanda y racionalidades de elección escolar
Durante las últimas décadas hemos sido testigos de un creciente protagonismo de las políticas educativas centradas en la demanda para mejorar el acceso y las condiciones de escolarización de los pobres. Entre ellas, las políticas de voucher o bono escolar han desempeñado un papel destacado como mecanismo para mejorar la elección de escuela y la competencia entre los centros escolares. Los actores que abogan por es t as políticas y las impulsan, c…
Meeting development goals
In recent years, the Civil Society Education Fund has supported national education civil society coalitions (NECs) in low-income countries so that they put pressure on governments and donors to implement the Education for All agenda and the Millennium Development Goal on education. This article draws on literature on global governance as well as on an extensive evaluation of the CSEF to explore the actual contribution of this initiative to the ac…
Mitos Y Asunciones De Las Escuelas Chárter
Los Colegios en Concesión (CEC) son un programa de escuelas chárter que se implementa en Colombia desde el año 1999. A pesar de su modesta expansión (72 escuelas, 107.000 alumnos), los CEC disfrutan de un amplio reconocimiento internacional tanto académico como político (p.ej., por parte del Banco Mundial o el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo), y son considerados como un modelo paradigmático y en gran medida exitoso de escuelas chárter. Basado …
Demand rationalities in contexts of poverty
Understanding School Segregation
During recent decades, social inequalities have increased in many urban spaces in the globalized world, and education has not been immune to these tendencies. Urban segregation, migration movements and education policies themselves have produced an increasing process of school segregation between the most disadvantaged social groups and the middle classes. Exploring school segregation patterns in Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, England, France…
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