Abstract
ABSTRACT Reforming vocational education and training (VET) is high on the AKP government's agenda. To meet industry demands, the AKP seeks to increase vocational school enrollments through popularization campaigns and restrictions on high school applications. Interviews with parents of high school applicants and ethnographic observations at a public middle school in Istanbul suggest that market-driven VET promotions have had limited success in popularizing vocational schools. Furthermore, there is evidence that application restrictions disproportionately impact working-class students while middle-class students avoid vocational tracking by enrolling in private schools. The findings reveal important mechanisms through which neoliberalism reproduces socioeconomic inequalities in schooling.
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