Descripción del proyecto
Cómo reducir la desigualdad en las transiciones educativas
En Europa, las transiciones educativas suelen presentar desigualdades. Las investigaciones anteriores se han centrado principalmente en la transición a la enseñanza superior, pasando por alto las transiciones anteriores y la importancia de los orientadores profesionales. El equipo del proyecto EDUCHANGE, financiado por el Consejo Europeo de Investigación, pretende disminuir las desigualdades durante la transición de la enseñanza obligatoria a la secundaria y a la superior. Realizará experimentos de campo en Dinamarca, Alemania, Hungría e Islandia. El equipo del proyecto pretende mejorar nuestra comprensión de cómo la orientación profesional y el suministro de información pueden contribuir a reducir las desigualdades. Además, explorará las evaluaciones subjetivas de los estudiantes sobre los costes, los beneficios y las probabilidades de éxito, junto con las barreras psicológicas. Por último, el equipo del proyecto investigará el impacto del contexto institucional sobre si la orientación profesional y la provisión de información pueden mitigar eficazmente la desigualdad.
Objetivo
EDUCHANGE aims to become one of the first ever projects to conduct simultaneous field experiments in four strategically selected countries (Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Iceland) with the goal to reduce inequality at the educational transition from compulsory to secondary education and at the transition to higher education.
While experimental intervention studies have become more common in sociology and economics in recent years, EDUCHANGE will address five critical limitations in this literature: 1) No information or career guidance experiment with the goal to reduce inequality at educational transitions has ever been implemented in different countries with a harmonized design. This is puzzling given the importance of institutional context for the generation of inequalities in education 2) The majority of experiments focus on the transition to higher education while neglecting earlier transitions which are particularly relevant in tracked European education systems 3) Previous experiments have hardly considered the role and knowledge of professional counsellors 4) Previous interventions have mainly focused on updating students’ biased perceptions of costs and returns while neglecting other psychological and social barriers 5) Advances in multimedia technologies have only to a limited extent been integrated in previous experiments.
Key outcomes of EDUCHANGE will include: (a) A more nuanced conceptual understanding of how career guidance and information provision can help to reduce inequalities (b) A comparative study of students’ subjective evaluation of costs, returns and probabilities of success and psychological barriers they attach to different educational alternatives in a comparative perspective (c) Knowledge about to what degree institutional context has an impact on whether information provision and career guidance can reduce inequality at two key educational transitions – and potentially affect persistence at the next level.
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Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
HORIZON-ERC - HORIZON ERC GrantsInstitución de acogida
101 Reykjavik
Islandia