Resisting Education: A Cross-National Study on Systems and School Effects

1. School Effects on Deviance: An International Perspective; Jannick Demanet and Mieke Van Houtte.- 2.  Understanding Student Misconduct in Urban Schools: Is There a Need for a Cross-National Approach?; Sophie Pascal, Michel Janosz, Isabelle Archambault, and Marie-Christine Brault.- 3. The Effects of 21st Century Skills on Behavioral Disengagement in Sacramento High Schools; Gregory J. Palardy and Russell W. Rumberger.- 4. Student Disengagement in Finnish Comprehensive School in Turku; Tero Järvinen and Jenni Tikkanen.- 5. School Misconduct in a Unified system - Norwegian 10th Graders in Bergen; Thea Bertnes Strømme. 6. Student Disengagement in Inclusive Icelandic Education: A Question of School Effect in Reykjavik; Kristjana Stella Blondal, Jón Torfi Jónasson and Atli Hafthórsson.- 7. Socio-Economic School Composition and School Misconduct: Disentangling Structural and Cultural Explanations in Ghent;Jannick Demanet, Laura Van den Broeck, and Mieke Van Houtte.- 8. A Multilevel Analysis of Student School Misconduct in High Schools: Investigating the Role of School Socioeconomic Composition and Teacher Culture in Montréal; Marie-Christine Brault, Veronique Dupéré, Michel Janosz, Sophie Pascal, Isabelle Archambault, and Nathan Yerg .- 9. Bad Schools or Bad Pupils? School Effects on Misbehavior in Barcelona; Rafael Merino and Dani Torrents.- 10. Resisting Education. Do Schools and Systems Matter?; Jannick Demanet and Mieke Van Houtte.    

Jannick Demanet, PhD in Sociology, is assistant professor at the Department of Sociology, research team CuDOS (Cultural Diversity: Opportunities and Socialisation), at Ghent University, Belgium. His research deals with contextual effects, originating from school contexts and educational systems, on antischool attitudes and behavior and postsecondary education outcomes. He further researches friendships, bullying/victimization, grade retention, and teacher expectations. His work has been published in, among others, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Sociological Quarterly, American Educational Research Journal, Acta Sociologica, and Teaching and Teacher Education (for full bibliography, see https://biblio.ugent.be/person/802000232230). He has been invited to lecture at the University of Lower Silesia, Wroclaw, Poland, and the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain. Since 2015, he is member of the board of the Research Network 10 (Sociology of Education) of the European SociologicalAssociation (ESA) and since 2012 he is the coordinator of the International Study of City Youth in Ghent, Belgium.

Mieke Van Houtte, PhD in Sociology, is full professor and head of the research team CuDOS (Cultural Diversity: Opportunities and Socialisation) at the Department of Sociology at Ghent University (Belgium). Her research interests cover diverse topics within the sociology of education, particularly the effects of structural and compositional school features on diverse outcomes for students and teachers, with a focus on equal opportunities. In addition, she supervises research on sexual minorities. She (co)authored more than 300 publications, of which more than 100 accepted and/or published articles are listed in Web of Science, among which articles in high standing journals like Sociology of Education, American Educational Research Journal, Acta Sociologica, Sex Roles, Gender and Education - bibliography see https://biblio.ugent.be/person/801000942270. Since 2006 Van