Social inequality in the homeschooling efforts of German high school students during a school closing period
Social inequality in the homeschooling efforts of German high school students during a school closing period
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DOI：
10.1080/14616696.2020.1826556
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发表时间：
2020-10-15
影响因子：
8.1
通讯作者：
Lerche, Adrian
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作者：
Dietrich, Hans;Patzina, Alexander;Lerche, Adrian
关闭学校一直是全球减少冠状病毒疾病（COVID-19）传播的一项关键政策措施。在德国，联邦各州在3月中旬关闭了学校，并在4月下旬开始重新开放。这一政策可能会增加父母在在家上学期间的监督和支持义务，因此可能会加剧教育机会方面的社会不平等。因此，本研究报告调查了学生在家上学努力中的社会不平等。此外，它问是否在家庭学习环境，社会支持，教师的支持，成本效益相关的考虑因素的社会差异占在家上学的努力在学校关闭期间在德国。为此，我们使用的数据来自一个正在进行的研究项目，高中学生在他们的最后几年，在学校关闭期间收集。我们的研究结果显示，家庭教育的社会背景的努力显着差异。到目前为止，所研究的机制只能解释社会起源效应的一个温和的部分。总之，结果表明，学校关闭有可能加剧教育机会方面的社会不平等。因此，未来的研究应该仔细审查学校关闭在多大程度上加剧了教育机会的不平等。
School closings have been a key policy measure worldwide for reducing the spread of corona-virus disease (COVID-19). In Germany, federal states closed schools in mid-March and started to reopen them in late April. This policy potentially increased parental obligations for supervision and support during homeschooling and, thus, might reinforce social inequality in educational opportunities. Therefore, this research note investigates social inequality in students' homeschooling efforts. Moreover, it asks whether social disparities in home learning environments, social support, teacher support, and cost-benefit-related considerations account for the social differences in homeschooling efforts during the school closing period in Germany. To that end, we use data from an ongoing research project on high school students in their final years that were collected during the school closing period. Our results show pronounced differences in home schooling efforts by social background. Thus far, the mechanisms under study can explain only a moderate part of the social origin effect. In summary, the results show that school closings have the potential to exacerbate social inequality in educational opportunities. Therefore, future research should scrutinise the extent to which school closings reinforce inequality in educational opportunities.