How do education systems shape educational inequalities and differences in educational outcomes? Education systems and inequalities compares different education systems and their impact on creating and sustaining social inequalities. It considers what social mechanisms are behind the links between education systems and educational inequalities and provides vital evidence to inform debates in policy and reform.
How do education systems shape educational inequalities and differences in educational outcomes? Education systems and inequalities compares different education systems and their impact on creating and sustaining social inequalities. It considers what social mechanisms are behind the links between education systems and educational inequalities and provides vital evidence to inform debates in policy and reform.
Introduction: Education systems and educational inequalities ~
Andreas Hadjar and Christiane Gross;
Theorising the impact of education systems on educational
inequalities ~ Christiane gross, Heinz-Dieter Meyer and Andreas
Hadjar;
Comparing policies in a globalising world: methodological
reflections ~ Susan Robertson and Roger Dale;
Education systems and intersectionality ~ Christiane Gross, Anja
Gottburgsen and Ann Phoenix;
Measuring educational institutional diversity: External
differentiation, vocational orientation and standardisation ~ Thijs
Bol and Herman G. Van De Werfhorst;
Sorting and (much) more: Prior ability, school-effects and the
impact of ability tracking on educational inequalities in
achievement ~ Hartmut Esser;
Data analysis techniques to model the effects of education systems
on educational inequalities ~ Christiane Gross;
Education systems and inequality based on social origins: The
impact of school expansion and design~ Gabriele Ballarino, Fabrizio
Bernardi and Nazareno Panichella;
Education systems and gender inequalities in educational attainment
~ Andreas Hadjar and Claudia Buchmann;
Tracking, schools’ entrance requirements and the educational
performance of migrant students ~ Jaap Dronkers and Roxanne A.
Korthals;
From exclusion and segregation to inclusion? Dis/ability and
inequalities in the education systems of Germany and Nigeria ~
Julia Biermann and Justin J.W. Powell;
Education systems and meritocracy: Social origin, educational and
status attainment ~ Andreas Hadjar and Rolf Becker;
Education systems and gender inequalities in educational returns ~
Concetta Mendolicchio;
Education systems and migrant-specific labour market returns ~
Irena Kogan;
Health returns to education and educational systems ~ Johann
Carstensen and Monika Jungbauer-Gans;
Good and bad education systems: Is there an ideal one? ~ Jutta
Allmendinger;
Conclusions and summary ~ Christiane Gross and Andreas Hadjar.
Andreas Hadjar is a full professor of Sociology of Education in the Institute of Education and Society at the University of Luxembourg.
Christiane Gross is a senior researcher in the Institute of Sociology at the University of Hanover, Germany.
"A standout volume for critical discussion of education systems and inequalities that helps move the debate decisively from outlining a general problem to refined analysis, highlighting what needs to be done where." Elaine Unterhalter, UCL Institute of Education
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