Educational choices, transitions and aspirations in Europe: Systemic, institutional and subjective challenges

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Introduction: setting the scene for the analysis / Aina Tarabini and Nicola Ingram -- Working-class educational failure : theoretical perspectives, discursive concerns, and methodological approaches / Diane Reay -- Student aspiration and transition as capabilities for navigating education systems / Trevor Gale and Stephen Parker -- Transition from primary to secondary education in a rigidly tracked system : the case of Flanders / Simon Boone, Marie Seghers and Mieke Van Houtte -- Working-class boys and educational success in a socially divisive secondary education system : lessons from Belfast (Northern Ireland) / Nicola Ingram -- Framing youth educational choices at the end of compulsory schooling : the Catalan case / Aina Tarabini, Marta Curran, Alba Castejón and Alejandro Montes -- Choosing the right track : educational decisions and inequalities within the Italian educational system / Marco Romito -- Social class, institutional habitus and high school choices in Turkey / Çetin C̦elik -- National framing and local reframing of students' transition to higher education in France : limitations and pitfalls / Agnès van Zanten, Alice Olivier, Anne-Claudine Oller, Katrina Ulhy -- Preparatory course market and access to higher education in Finland : pocketful or pockets full of money needed? / Sonja Kosunen, Hanna Ahtiainen and Marju Töyrylä -- Higher education students as consumers? : evidence from England / Rachel Brooks and Jessica Abrahams -- Conclusion: social inequalities in educational choices : transitions and aspirations in Europe / Nicola Ingram and Aina Tarabini.