Educational Choices, Transitions and Aspirations in Europe analyses educational choices and transitions in eight different European countries/regions and provides an engaging means of considering issues of inequality through international comparisons.

Aina Tarabini is associate professor at Autonomous University of Barcelona and researcher at the research center on Globalisation, Education and Social Policies (GEPS).

Nicola Ingram is senior lecturer in Education and Social Justice in the Department for Educational Research at Lancaster University and Co-convenor of the British Sociological Association's Bourdieu and Education study groups.

Part I. Introduction

1. Setting the scene for the analysis. Aina Tarabini (Autonomous University of Barcelona) and Nicola Ingram (University of Lancaster)

Part II. Theoretical and conceptual perspective

2. Working class educational failure: theoretical perspectives, discursive concerns, and methodological approaches. Diane Reay (University of Cambridge).

3. Student aspiration and transition as capabilities for navigating education systems. Trevor Gale and Stephen Parker (Glasgow University).

Part III. Primary School Transitions

4. Transition from primary to secondary education in a rigidly tracked system: the case of Flanders. Simon Boone, Marie Seghers and Mieke Van Houtte (University of Ghent).

5. Working-class boys and educational success in a socially divisive secondary education system: lessons from Belfast (Northern Ireland). Nicola Ingram (University of Lancaster).

Part IV. Secondary School Transitions

6. Framing youth educational choices at the end of compulsory schooling: the Catalan case. Aina Tarabini, Marta Curran, Alba Castejón, Alejandro Montes (Autonomous University of Barcelona).

7. Choosing the right track. Educational decisions and inequalities within the Italian educational system. Marco Romito (University of Milan).

8. Social class, institutional habitus and high school choices in Turkey. Çetin Celik (Koç University),

Part V. Higher Education Transitions

9. 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 (Science Po, Paris).

10. Preparatory course market and access to higher education in Finland: pocketful or pockets-full-of money needed? Sonja Kosunen, Hanna Ahtiainen and Marju Töyrylä (University of Helsinki)

11. Higher education students as consumers? Evidence from England. Rachel Brooks and Jessica Abrahams (University of Surrey).

Part VI. Conclusions

12. Social Inequalities in Educational Choices Transitions and Aspirations in Europe. Nicola Ingram (University of Lancaster) and Aina Tarabini (Autonomous University of Barcelona)