Andreas Hadjar – författare

Gender inequalities in education – in terms of systematic variations in access to educational institutions, in competencies, school marks, and educational certificates along the axis of gender – have tremendously changed over the course of the 20th century. Although this does not apply to all stages and areas of the educational career, it is particularly obvious looking at upper secondary education. Before the major boost of educational expansion in the 1960s, women’s participation in upper secondary general education, and their chances to successfully finish this educational pathway, have been lower than men’s. However, towards the end of the 20th century, women were outperforming men in many European countries and beyond. The international contributions to this book attempt to shed light on the mechanisms behind gender inequalities and the changes made to reduce this inequality. Topics explored by the contributors include gender in science education in the UK; women’s education in Luxembourg in the 19th and 20th century; the ‘gender gap’ debates and their rhetoric in the UK and Finland; sociological perspectives on the gender-equality discourse in Finland; changing gender differences in West Germany in the 20th century; the interplay of subjective well-being and educational attainment in Switzerland; and a psychological perspective on gender identities, gender-related perceptions, students’ motivation, intelligence, personality, and the interaction between student and teacher gender. This book was originally published as a special issue of Educational Research.

Gender inequalities in education – in terms of systematic variations in access to educational institutions, in competencies, school marks, and educational certificates along the axis of gender – have tremendously changed over the course of the 20th century. Although this does not apply to all stages and areas of the educational career, it is particularly obvious looking at upper secondary education. Before the major boost of educational expansion in the 1960s, women’s participation in upper secondary general education, and their chances to successfully finish this educational pathway, have been lower than men’s. However, towards the end of the 20th century, women were outperforming men in many European countries and beyond. The international contributions to this book attempt to shed light on the mechanisms behind gender inequalities and the changes made to reduce this inequality. Topics explored by the contributors include gender in science education in the UK; women’s education in Luxembourg in the 19th and 20th century; the ‘gender gap’ debates and their rhetoric in the UK and Finland; sociological perspectives on the gender-equality discourse in Finland; changing gender differences in West Germany in the 20th century; the interplay of subjective well-being and educational attainment in Switzerland; and a psychological perspective on gender identities, gender-related perceptions, students’ motivation, intelligence, personality, and the interaction between student and teacher gender. This book was originally published as a special issue of Educational Research.

EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How do education systems shape educational inequalities and differences in educational outcomes? And how do advantages and disadvantages in educational attainment translate into privileges and shortcomings in labour market and general life chances? Education systems and inequalities compares different education systems and their impact on creating and sustaining social inequalities. The book considers key questions such as how education systems impact educational inequalities along such variables as social origin, gender, ethnicity, migration background or ability and what social mechanisms are behind the links between education system and educational inequalities and provides vital evidence to inform debates in policy and reform.

Das Buch befasst sich mit den Ursachen von Fremdenfeindlichkeit und stellt einen Zusammenhang zur Marktlogik her. Das Verhaltnis von Ellenbogenmentalitat und Fremdenfeindlichkeit erscheint dabei als Paradox, da marktorientierte Werthaltungen offenbar zu einem sozialen Problem fuhren, das sich gegen die Idee der Chancengleichheit des freien Marktes richtet.

Die öffentliche Diskussion um geschlechtsspezifische Ungleichheiten hat sich – parallel zur Reduktion struktureller Benachteiligungen von Frauen – in den letzten Jahren stark gewandelt. Während traditionell die geringere Bildungs- und Erwerbsbeteiligung von Frauen in den Blick genommen wurde, ist nun der geringere Bildungserfolg von Jungen – im Hinblick auf Bildungsabschlüsse, Schulnoten oder Leistungstests – zum viel beachteten Thema geworden. Ziel dieses Buches ist es, auf Basis aktueller empirischer Studien geschlechtsspezifische Bildungsungleichheiten und mögliche Ursachenfaktoren zu beleuchten, wobei verschiedene – teilweise kontroverse Sichtweisen – aufgezeigt werden. Am Beginn steht eine Bestandsaufnahme zu Geschlechterunterschieden, dann werden einige Erklärungsansätze detailliert untersucht und schließlich die gesellschaftlichen und wissenschaftlichen Debatten nachgezeichnet.