Descrizione del progetto
Come ridurre le disuguaglianze nelle transizioni scolastiche
In Europa, le transizioni scolastiche spesso presentano disuguaglianze. Le indagini precedenti si sono concentrate principalmente sul passaggio all’istruzione superiore, trascurando le transizioni precedenti e l’importanza dei consulenti professionali. Il progetto EDUCHANGE, finanziato dal CER, mira a ridurre le disuguaglianze durante il passaggio dall’istruzione obbligatoria a quella secondaria e all’istruzione superiore. Condurrà esperimenti sul campo in Danimarca, Germania, Ungheria e Islanda. Il progetto mira a migliorare la nostra comprensione di come l’orientamento professionale e l’informazione possano contribuire a ridurre le disuguaglianze. Saranno inoltre analizzate le valutazioni soggettive degli studenti in merito a costi, rendimenti e probabilità di successo, nonché le barriere psicologiche. Il progetto analizzerà infine l’impatto del contesto istituzionale sulla capacità dell’orientamento professionale e dell’informazione di mitigare efficacemente le disuguaglianze.
Obiettivo
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.
Campo scientifico
Parole chiave
Programma(i)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Argomento(i)
Meccanismo di finanziamento
HORIZON-ERC - HORIZON ERC GrantsIstituzione ospitante
101 Reykjavik
Islanda