Life-Course Dynamics of Educational Tracking

该项目旨在回答以下问题：不同的教育制度，特别是其各种教育跟踪和分类模式，如何以及为什么影响整个生命过程中社会不平等的形成和再现？虽然以前的比较研究已经确定了跟踪对教育不平等的影响，但该项目超越了最新技术水平，从动态的生命过程角度探索了基本机制，并考虑了跟踪对最终教育成就和劳动力市场结果的长期影响。该项目将侧重于一般的不平等形成，以及特别是社会经济出身、性别和族裔方面的不平等动态。这将在一个比较研究框架内完成，该框架由六个欧洲国家组成，它们代表了不同跟踪和综合教育系统的原型：丹麦、芬兰、法国、德国、意大利和英国。该项目通过独特的努力，统一来自这些国家的高质量生命过程数据集，从而能够确定不同体制环境中不平等形成动态的差异。该项目将作为一个国际研究网络组织。它汇集了来自每个参与国的该领域的专家，他们将根据创新方法开展综合研究方案。该项目采用新颖的方法，将教育系统的体制特点与不平等形成的动态过程联系起来，将对研究状况作出重大贡献，并提供与政策高度相关的知识。

This project aims to answer the following question: how and why do different educational systems, and in particular their various modes of educational tracking and sorting, influence the formation and reproduction of social inequalities over the life course? While previous comparative research has identified effects of tracking on educational inequality, this project goes beyond the state of the art by exploring the underlying mechanisms from a dynamic life-course perspective, and by considering long-term consequences of tracking for final educational attainment and labour market outcomes. The project will focus on both inequality formation in general and inequality dynamics with respect to socioeconomic origin, gender and ethnicity in particular. This will be accomplished in a comparative research framework, comprising six European countries, which represent the prototypes of different tracked and comprehensive educational systems: Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, and the UK. Through a unique effort to harmonize high-quality life-course datasets from each of these countries, the project allows for an identification of differences in the dynamics of inequality formation in different institutional settings. The project will be organised as an international research network. It assembles experts in the field from each participating country, who will pursue an integrated research programme based on innovative methodology. By its novel approach of linking institutional characteristics of educational systems to dynamic processes in inequality formation, the project will make a significant contribution to the state of research and provide highly policy-relevant knowledge.