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Educational processes are cumulative by nature, i.e. earlier phases in education structure the realm of options available to educational processes in later life as well as the long-term employment and life opportunities. Therefore, (a) early inequality can lead to large inequalities regarding education and participation later on, (b) inequality can persist across the lifespan, and (c) inequalities in education can affect all other areas of life, generating further inequalities there. Research into the emergence of social inequalities in the acquisition of education and its assessment thus need to consider educational processes and educational institutions across life. Moreover, individual educational processes are influenced by a wide range of factors which cannot be adequately addressed and taken into perspective by one isolated discipline. In this respect, research calls for an interdisciplinary collaboration of researchers from different disciplines (for example from educational science, economy, psychology, sociology but also political science or philosophy regarding educational policy or normative issues).
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Heike Solga
WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Projects with this research priority
- BEST UP (Berlin Panel of High School Graduates) (completed)
- Collection of Methods for Language-Sensitive Subject Teaching
- College for Interdisciplinary Education Research
- Die Welt der Kinder: Weltwissen und Weltdeutung in Schul- und Kinderbüchern zwischen 1850 und 1918
- Education through Language and Literacy (ELaL)
- Education Through Language and Writing
- Educational choices and educational pathways within the context of structural changes in Berlin’s secondary school system (BERLIN-Study)
- Evaluation of the Federal European School in Berlin
- Inclusive Education in Lower Secondary Schools in Germany – INSIDE
- MILES: Methodological Issues in Longitudinal Educational Research
- National Educational Panel Study (NEPS)
- National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), Focus on language proficiency of students with migration background (Pillar “Education Acquisition of Person with Migration Background”)
- No child left behind – The power of reading (elementary schools)
- The multimedia history textbook (MBook) (completed)
LERN-Partners
- Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
- Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS)
- DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education
- German Institute for Adult Education – Leibniz Centre for Lifelong Learning (DIE)
- Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research. Member of the Leibniz Association (GEI)
- GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
- Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi)
- RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research
- WZB Berlin Social Science Center
- ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research
- Institute for Quality Development in Education (IQB)
- German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)
- Ifo Institute – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
- Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education (IPN)
- German Center for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW)
- Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology (HIB)
- Mercator Institute for Literacy and Language Education