Integration and Inequality in Educational Institutions [Hardcover]

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.Addressing questions at the core of education research, this book examines ways in which the institutional embeddedness and the social and ethnic composition of primary and secondary level students affect performance, skill formation, and behavioral outcomes.

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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 divel3.