Projektbeschreibung
Verbesserung der indischen Schulintegrationspolitik
Indien verfügt über das größte Schulsystem der Welt, doch leider sind hier erhebliche Ungleichheiten zu beklagen. Um dieses Problem zu lösen, verpflichtet das Gesetz über das Recht auf Bildung („Right to Education Act 2009“) Privatschulen dazu, ein Viertel ihrer Plätze für Kinder aus benachteiligten wirtschaftlichen und kastenbezogenen Verhältnissen freizuhalten. Die Regierung erstattet dann die Gebühren für diese Schulkinder. Welchen Effekt hatte diese Politik? Das EU-finanzierte Projekt EDINCLUSION wird dazu Antworten liefern, indem es die Auswirkungen der indischen Schulintegrationspolitik ermitteln und Möglichkeiten zu deren Verbesserung aufzeigen wird. Insbesondere sollen die Folgen für die derzeitigen Begünstigten bewertet, Ansätze zur Förderung von Bewerbungen ärmerer anspruchsberechtigter Lernender ermittelt und ein systematisches Verständnis der Privatschulmärkte geschaffen werden.
Ziel
Social and economic stratification of schools can hurt both the equity and effectiveness of education systems. These concerns are exacerbated in settings where private schools account for a significant share of enrolment, as is the case in India - where nearly half the population attends a fee-charging private school. The EDINCLUSION project proposes an ambitious research agenda focused on understanding and improving school integration in India - which is the world’s largest school system, and also among the most unequal. The agenda focuses on studying and improving the impact of India’s landmark school integration policy, under the Right to Education Act 2009, which mandates that 25% of places in private schools should be reserved for students from disadvantaged economic and caste backgrounds (with the government reimbursing fees). This is likely the world’s largest-ever school integration initiative, affecting several times as many children as school desegregation initiatives in the US in the 1960s. Yet, despite its importance, there is remarkably little research on either the impact of this policy or on ways to improve its effectiveness.
The proposal features three work packages to address these gaps: (a) an assessment of effects on current beneficiaries, identified using the lottery-based allocation of seats in oversubscribed schools, (b) identifying approaches to encourage applications from poorer eligible students, evaluated through two multi-armed randomized control trials, and (c) a systematic understanding of private school markets using innovative survey design methods, panel data and exogenous policy-induced variation for identification. The results of this research program will generate ground-breaking evidence on (i) the effectiveness of this large school integration program (ii) identify scalable ways to improve its effectiveness and (iii) generate fundamental insights about the functioning of urban school markets in developing countries.
Wissenschaftliches Gebiet
Schlüsselbegriffe
Programm/Programme
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Thema/Themen
Finanzierungsplan
ERC - Support for frontier research (ERC)Gastgebende Einrichtung
SE11383 Stockholm
Schweden