Integration and Inequality in Educational Institutions / edited by Michael Windzio.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Windzio, Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational sociology.

Education and state.

School psychology.

Sociology of Education.

Educational Policy and Politics.

School Psychology.

Local Subjects:

Sociology of Education.

Educational Policy and Politics.

School Psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2013.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume addresses questions that lie at the core of research into education. It examines the way in which the institutional embeddedness and the social and ethnic composition of students affect educational performance, skill formation, and behavioral outcomes. It discusses the manner in which educational institutions accomplish social integration. It poses the question of whether they can reduce social inequality, – or whether they even facilitate the transformation of heterogeneity into social inequality. Divided into five parts, the volume offers new insights into the many factors, processes and policies that affect performance levels and social inequality in educational institutions. It presents current empirical work on social processes in educational institutions and their outcomes. While its main focus is on the primary and secondary level of education and on occupational training, the book also presents analyses of institutional effects on transitions from vocational training into tertiary educational institutions in an interdisciplinary and internationally comparative approach.

Contents:

Foreword

Introduction 1. Integration and Inequality in Educational Institutions: An Institutional Perspective by Michael Windzio

Education and Society 2. Integration and the Education State. Institutional History and Public Discourse in England, France, Germany, and the US by Ansgar Weymann

Institutions and educational outcomes in a comparative perspective 3. The School Performance of the Russian-Speaking Minority in Linguistically Divided Educational Systems: A Comparison of Estonia and Latvia by Kristina Lindemann

4. Positive but also negative effects of ethnic diversity in schools on educational performance? An empirical test using PISA data by Jaap Dronkers & Rolf van der Velden

5. Socio-Structural Effects on Educational Poverty of Young Immigrants - An International Comparative Perspective by Janna Teltemann & Michael Windzio

6. School Accountability, Autonomy, Choice and the Equality of Educational Opportunities by Gabriela Schuetz, Elke Luedemann, Martin R. West & Ludger Woessmann

7. Consequences of Changing Education Policies on Social Inequality – The Case of Japan – by Masashi Urabe, Ayumi Ono & Sherlyne Almonte Acosta

Social networks and social capital in schools and classrooms 8. School Class Composition and Student Development in Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Domains: Longitudinal Analyses of Primary School Students in Germany by Thorsten Schneider

9. Immigrant Children’s Access to Social Capital in School-Class Networks by Michael Windzio

10. Social discrimination in Classrooms. The Contribution of a Social Networks Approach to Theory and Methods, andEmpirical Evidence by Chris Baerveldt

11. School interconnectedness and school inequality as determinants of the ethnic gap in violent behavior by Dirk Baier

12. Friendships of delinquent and non-delinquent adolescents in classrooms by Andrea Knecht

Institutionalized transitions into and out of vocational training 13. Immigrants in the German Vocational Training System – A Closer Look at Young People with Low Educational Credentials by Can Aybek

14. New Institutional Linkages between Dual Vocational Training and Higher Education – A Comparative Analysis of Germany, Austria and Switzerland by Christian Ebner, Lukas Graf & Rita Nikolai

15. Conclusion: Institutional Effects on Integration and Inequality by Michael Windzio.& Sherlyne Almonte Acosta

10. Social discrimination in Classrooms. The Contribution of a Social Networks Approach to Theory and Methods, and Empirical Evidence by Chris Baerveldt

14. New Institutional Linkages between Dual Vocational Training andHigher Education – A Comparative Analysis of Germany, Austria and Switzerland by Christian Ebner, Lukas Graf & Rita Nikolai

15. Conclusion: Institutional Effects on Integration and Inequality by Michael Windzio.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781299408449

1299408443

9789400761193

9400761198

OCLC:

832994628