Life-Course Dynamics of Educational Tracking

该项目旨在回答以下问题：不同的教育系统，特别是它们的各种教育跟踪和分类模式，如何以及为什么影响社会不平等在一生中的形成和再现？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，但这个项目超越了最先进的水平，从动态的生命过程角度探索了潜在的机制，并考虑了跟踪最终教育程度和劳动力市场结果的长期后果。该项目将侧重于一般不平等的形成和社会经济来源、特别是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。通过协调这些国家的高质量生命历程数据集的独特努力，该项目能够查明不同机构环境中不平等形成的动态差异。该项目将作为一个国际研究网络来组织。它汇集了来自每个参与国的该领域的专家，他们将根据创新的方法开展综合研究方案。通过将教育系统的体制特征与不平等形成的动态过程联系起来的新方法，该项目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.