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This article explores the issue of “geography of education” focusing on the pivotal contribution of place to one’s education. The geographic location of schools and the administrative organisation of local authorities that are responsible for state schools in England create sociospatial inequalities that are associated with individual life‐course trajectories and can contribute to the intergenerational transfer of disadvantage. This article focuses on Latvian migrant families for whom better status often can be achieved through being included in the education system of the country. Therefore, the educational achievement of the children who speak Latvian at home but live and attend schools in England is the main focus of this article. The academic attainment of these children is well below not only the national average across all levels of compulsory education but also compared to both monolingual English speakers and all pupils speaking English as an additional language. The article provides evidence that in addition to the sociodemographic individual and family‐level factors geography also plays a significant role in explaining the educational achievement gaps. As the descriptive quantitative analysis of the geographical and educational data indicates, Latvian children are disproportionally present in local authorities where there is a relatively high proportion of low‐quality schools, a higher‐than‐average proportion of individuals with low qualifications and those in low‐qualified jobs.

Young adults in rural areas in many cases have limited educational opportunities. To obtain higher educational qualifications, rural youth often travel long distances. Therefore, many rural youths choose the “shorter” route and complete vocational training closer to home or drop out of their education prematurely. Against this background, this study examines the education policies of European countries and explores the extent to which these problems are addressed within their policy framework and what measures are taken to improve the situation. Using a unique dataset of policies of 31 European countries for the period 2010 to 2020, we examine more than 500 national and subnational policies that address formal and informal education and training. The results show that despite the sometimes high number of rural youths not in education, employment, or training (NEETs) and high early-school-leaving rates, only some countries have developed a respective policy strategy. The analysis presents the different measures implemented in the countries and furthermore shows that a high problem pressure in a country is not necessarily accompanied by a consideration in policy. Prospectively, there is a need for new policies that understand the multidimensionality of the issue and significantly improve the situation of rural youth.

Im Kontext verstärkter Fluchtmigration(en) nach Deutschland, insbesondere im Zuge des Syrienkrieges, sind zahlreiche Initiativen für, von und mit 'Geflüchtete(n)' entstanden, von denen aktuell viele mit Schulen kooperieren. Basierend auf qualitativen Interviews beschäftigt sich dieser Beitrag mit den Perspektiven zivilgesellschaftlicher Initiativen auf schulische Diskriminierung von Schüler_innen mit (zugeschriebener) Flucht-/Migrationsgeschichte sowie hierauf bezogene Schulentwicklungsprozesse. Identifiziert und analysiert werden verschiedene Spannungsfelder, in denen sich die Kooperation zwischen außerschulischen Bildungsinitiativen und Schulen bewegt, die sowohl behördliche Förderlogiken, machtvolle migrationsgesellschaftliche Diskurse als auch schulische Routinen im Umgang mit Diversität und Differenz tangieren. Über die Analyse werden Potentiale und Herausforderungen hinsichtlich der Bearbeitung von (rassistischer) Diskriminierung im Rahmen der Kooperationen deutlich ebenso wie die Bedeutung eines Verständnisses von diskriminierungssensibler Professionalität als Fähigkeit, mit widersprüchlichen Anforderungen umzugehen. In the context of the increasing forced migration to Germany in the wake of the Syrian war, numerous initiatives for, by and with 'refugees' have emerged, many of which are currently collaborating with schools. Based on qualitative interviews, this article deals with perspectives of civil society initiatives on the discrimination of students with a so-called refugee/migration background and on related school development processes. The article identifies and analyses various fields of tension in which cooperation with schools takes place, which concern administrative funding logics, discourses about and school routines in dealing with diversity and difference in the (post-)migration society. Thereby, potentials and challenges for developing a sustainable response to (racist) discrimination in and through school collaborations become apparent, as does the importance of an understanding of pedagogical competence that is sensitive to discrimination as the ability to deal with contradictory pedagogical demands.

With a burgeoning out‐of‐school population and illiteracy rate, the situation of protracted conflict and crises fuelled by the Boko‐Haram insurgency further exacerbates educational inequality for children in northern Nigeria. The Covid‐19 pandemic further deepened the “educational poverty” experienced there. This article focuses on data generated around ACE radio school, an initiative to mitigate the impact of Covid‐19‐related school closures in northern Nigeria. The initiative targeted young learners using radio as a medium to support their continued learning remotely in numeracy, literacy, sciences, and civics education. Daily learning activities were broadcasted in the local Hausa language, supported through “listening groups” that engaged local learning facilitators in the communities. Despite the known existing barriers that have been identified to hinder access to quality education in the region, including poverty, religion, socio‐cultural factors, and protracted conflict situations, our interviews revealed that parents were committed to supporting their children’s attendance at listening groups, due to the use of their mother tongue as a mode of instruction. Drawing on a conversational learning approach, we argue that understanding local conditions and adopting local solutions, such as the radio lessons delivered in these children’s mother tongue, have implications for enhancing improved learner outcomes in marginalised contexts.

Context: In the present study, we explore what motivates young adults to re-engage with education or employment after a period of non-engagement. Insights into this process facilitate the implementation of tailored support measures for at-risk groups. It is well-known that young people who are not involved in any kind of education, employment, or training face further risks to their professional and psychological development. Methods: Using a grounded theory approach, interviews with young adults from various educational tracks were analyzed, compared, and contrasted. The sample was focused mainly on apprentices in extra-vocational training and professionals working with young people to describe the process of re-engaging in detail (n = 30). Findings: Our analyses suggested that frustrating prior experiences and offers to participate in government-funded vocational training prompted motivation to learn an occupational skillset. Undergoing an apprenticeship enabled young adults to develop the motivation to finish vocational training and to plan on further education.Conclusion: The implications of these results as they pertain to Germany's labor market policies, which foster a sense of individual responsibility to facilitate the achievement of professional success, are discussed. Furthermore, the implications for supporting further educational aspirations when working with young adults are discussed.

Opladen • Berlin • Toronto : Verlag Barbara Budrich 2023, 268 S., International developments and impulses call for the equitable and inclusive design of education systems. This book takes this up and focuses on the often blurred relationship between inclusive education and educational equity. By compiling current research results and theoretical contributions from several European countries on the topic, the authors create an overarching framework for discussion. (DIPF/Orig.)

Der Bericht geht der Frage nach, welche Wirkung die bedarfsorientierte Ressourcensteuerung als Ausgleich sozialräumlicher Bildungsdisparitäten an Schulen besitzt, und problematisiert sowohl den Mangel an empirischen Befunden als auch die fehlende Evaluation des Mitteleinsatzes. (DIPF/Orig.) This report examines the impact of needs-based school funding as a means of balancing socio-spatial educational disparities and problematizes both the lack of empirical findings and the lack of evaluation of the use of resources. (DIPF/Orig.)

Externe Kooperationen von Schulen werden mit dem Ziel verbesserter Bildungsteilhabe aller Kinder verbunden. Wie Bildungsteilhabe in Kooperationen hervorgebracht wird, ist bisher ungenügend in Deutschland erforscht. Dazu befasst sich dieser Beitrag exemplarisch mit der Kooperation einer Schule und einer Einrichtung der Kinder- und Jugendarbeit (OKJA-Einrichtung) in einem sozial belasteten Stadtteil. Im Ergebnis der qualitativen, organisationstheoretischen Studie kann als Umgang mit Bildungsteilhabe seitens der Schule eine Orientierung am Delegieren und seitens der OKJA-Einrichtung am Reparieren von als defizitär gerahmten Kindern rekonstruiert werden. External cooperation of schools is associated with the goal of improved educational participation for all children. So far, there has been insufficient research in Germany on how educational participation is brought about in cooperation. For this purpose, the article examines the example of the cooperation between a school and an institution for child and youth work in a socially disadvantaged area. As a result of the qualitative, organization-theoretical study, an orientation towards delegating can be reconstructed as dealing with educational participation on the part of the school and on the part of the institution for child and youth work towards repairing children framed as deficient.

Der Beitrag stellt dar, inwieweit die Umsetzung der Inklusion durch die Rechtsprechung der Verwaltungsgerichte unter dem Gesichtspunkt der Chancengleichheit gef��rdert worden ist. Die Rahmenbedingungen sind bereits vor der Verabschiedung der UN-BRK ma��geblich durch die Entscheidung des BVerfG vom 18.10.1997 bestimmt worden. Die sich darauf berufenden Entscheidungen der Verwaltungsgerichte lassen nicht erwarten, dass eine inklusive Beschulung in jedem Fall gerichtlich durchgesetzt und die nach der Beschlussfassung der BRK in der ��ffentlichkeit geweckten Erwartungen kurzfristig realisiert werden k��nnen. Insbesondere die Bezugnahme auf den Haushaltsvorbehalt (Art. 4 Abs. 2 BRK) wird eine schnelle Umsetzung eher erschweren. Die gerichtlichen Verfahren sichern zwar die rechtsstaatlich gebotene Chancengleichheit auf der Verfahrensebene. Die materielle Chancengleichheit bemisst sich aber individuell nach den Vorgaben des Art. 3 GG. (DIPF/Orig.), The article shows the extent to which the implementation of inclusion in Germany has been promoted by the case law of German administrative courts from the point of view of equal opportunities. The framework conditions were already set by the decision of the Federal Constitutional Court (October 18, 1997) in advance. The decisions of the administrative courts based on this do not suggest that inclusive schooling will always be enforced in court and that the expectations aroused in the public after the resolution of the CRPD can be realized in the short term. In particular, the budget reservation (Art. 4 Para. 2 CRPD) will impede a quick implementation. The judicial procedures ensure the equality of opportunities only at the procedural level. The individual equality of opportunities is measured individually according to the requirements of Art. 3 German Constitution. (DIPF/Orig.)

Saudi Arabia and Bahrain have both signed the 2006 UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and have a number of acts and policies which support inclusive education for children with disabilities. However, achieving the goals of equitable education at all levels remains a challenge, especially for autistic children. This article reports on the experiences of mothers from Saudi Arabia and Bahrain in trying to find schools or autism centres for their autistic adolescent sons. The research is based on in‐depth interviews with 17 mothers, the majority of whom reported that educating their sons is challenging, and that the schools and centres are inadequate or expensive, with the result that a number of participants’ children had to stay at home to the detriment of the boys and their mothers’ wellbeing. The findings are interpreted using the capabilities approach, a normative, evaluative framework on questions of social justice and individual flourishing. A capability evaluation reveals that many mothers experience capability corrosion as a result of gender, cultural, and legal restrictions, as well as difficulties in accessing appropriate education, with respect to three central capabilities: bodily integrity, affiliation, and control over one’s environment.

Mit der COVID-19-Pandemie sind Entwicklungsbedarfe in der Ausgestaltung der Zusammenarbeit zwischen Schule und Eltern erneut deutlich geworden. Die Potenziale, die in einer intensiveren Kooperation und einer stärkeren Öffnung von Schulen für Bedarfe von Familien liegen, wurden zwar schon lange zuvor herausgearbeitet, aber noch unzureichend genutzt. Der vorliegende Beitrag stellt hierauf bezogene Empfehlungen des Neunten Familienberichts (BMFSFJ, 2021) vor. Plädiert wird für eine Stärkung schulischer Ressourcen für die Weiterentwicklung von Erziehungs- und Bildungspartnerschaft en, für die Anbindung von Angeboten der Elternbildung und -beratung an Schulen und für den Ausbau interdisziplinärer Teams, die in ausgewählten Themenfeldern die Kooperation mit Eltern unterstützen können. (DIPF/Orig.), The Covid-19 pandemic has once again highlighted the need for development in the cooperation between schools and parents. Although the potential for more intensive cooperation and greater openness to the needs of families on the part of schools has been identified long before, it has not yet been fully exploited. This article presents the related recommendations of the Ninth Family Report (BMFSFJ, 2021). It argues in favor of strengthening school resources for the further development of family-school partnerships, for linking parent education and counseling services to schools, and for expanding interdisciplinary teams that can support cooperation with parents in selected subject areas. (DIPF/Orig.)

Vor einem Jahr wurden Kitas und Schulen in Deutschland pandemiebedingt geschlossen. Nur in einigen Wochen im Sommer fand regelhafter Präsenzunterricht statt. Der stattdessen angebotene Fern-, Hybrid- und Wechselunterricht hat erhebliche Auswirkungen für Schüler*innen, Lehrkräfte, Eltern und Familien mit sich gebracht und hat zu Lernrückständen geführt; soziale Kontakte wurden reduziert und psychische und gesundheitliche Belastungen der an Schule direkt oder indirekt Beteiligten haben zugenommen. Die schon vor den coronabedingten Schulschließungen bestehenden Bildungsungerechtigkeiten haben sich pandemiebedingt weiter vergrößert. Damit sie nicht noch größer werden und sich auf lange Sicht weiter verfestigen, ist zügiges Handeln erforderlich. Im vorliegenden Beitrag werden zum einen gesicherte Erkenntnisse über die kognitiven, sozialen und psychischen Auswirkungen der pandemiebedingten Schulschließungen und zum anderen diagnosebasierte und wissenschaftlich fundierte Förderkonzepte sowie ein umfassendes Förderprogramm gefordert und zur Diskussion gestellt, um gestärkt die Pandemie überwinden zu können. (DIPF/Orig.), Last year, early childhood education and care facilities and schools in Germany were closed due to the Pandemic. Regular face-to-face teaching only happened during a few weeks in the summer. In its place, distance teaching, hybrid teaching, or alternate teaching were offered, entailing substantial consequences for students, teachers, parents, and families, and also causing learning gaps. Social contacts were reduced and there were massive strains on the psychological and physiological health of all those directly or indirectly involved in schools. Educational injustices existing before the Pandemic have increased. To keep them from growing further and becoming more stable, a rapid intervention is necessary. This paper demands and discusses reliable data on the cognitive, social, and psychological effects of the school closures, diagnose-based and scientifically sound support concepts, and a comprehensive support program for the educational system in order to overcome the Pandemic and emerge stronger. (DIPF/Orig.)

After years of mandatory remote education, there is still a question that remains to be answered: “Is the online medium inclusive enough to be deemed a solution?” As classrooms relocate to online environments and pedagogies rely on technologies, it becomes imperative to ensure that no one is left behind and education remains accessible to every learner. The issue of the universality of access to technological resources in India mingles with various socio-economic disparities that hinder the successful implementation of online education. This chapter attempts to analyze and bring forward the factors that may contribute to the stark contrasts regarding the practicality of the online education scene in India, including accessibility, gender, socio-economic factors, and policy issues. In mitigating the impact of an educational disruption (e.g., global health crisis) as well as the future adoption of online instruction, this chapter summarized the topics that need addressing into themes: content understanding, learning outcomes, technological, pedagogical, and behavioral.

[Einleitung ...] In unserem Beitrag untersuchen wir einerseits wie sich die Schulinfrastruktur in Ost-deutschland in den letzten 25 Jahren entwickelt hat und ob während eines historisch einmaligen Rückgangs der Schülerzahlen die räumliche Abdeckung der Schulversorgung gewährleistet werden konnte. Zum anderen untersuchen wir dabei, welche Rolle die Privatschulen bei der räumlichen Abdeckung von Schulstandorten gespielt haben. Dabei untersuchen wir auch, ob politische Faktoren wie die zur Mindestklassengrößen und der Möglichkeit zur Zusammenfassung von Schulformen die Schulabdeckung beeinflusst haben. Denn kurze Wege zur nächsten Schule sind bedeutsam für den regionalen und sozial gleichwertigen Zugang zu allen Bildungsabschlüssen. Basis unserer Untersuchung sind die jährlichen Schulverzeichnisse der ostdeutschen Bundesländer der Schuljahre 1992-93 bis 2015-16. Die darin enthaltenen Informationen zu den Adressen der Schulstandorte verknüpfen wir in einem ersten Schritt mit Geokoordinaten. Die Geokoordinaten der Schulen haben wir dann via Open-Street-Map für jedes Jahr kartiert. Mit Hilfe dieser Web-Anwendung kann die Entwicklung der Schulstandorte (nach Bildungsgang getrennt) über den Lauf der Jahre nachverfolgt werden. Während mittlerweile verschiedene Geo-gestützte Karten von Schulen in Deutschland existieren, stellt unsere Arbeit die erste dar, die Veränderungen von Schulstandorten im Zeitverlauf darstellt. Im vorliegenden Beitrag werden wir über verschiedene methodische Zugänge aufzeigen, wie sich das Schulnetz in den ostdeutschen Bundesländern entwickelt hat.

This article explores how a differential thinking has arisen between “us” (locals, natives) and “them” (migrants) in German‐speaking areas, how in this context a canned Rezeptwissen (recipe knowledge) has established itself and how there has been a normalisation of cultural hegemony in the context of education. This binary thinking has also taken hold stepwise within the concepts of school development and educational programmes. It has contributed significantly to the construction of an educational normality that has retained its efficacy up to the present. Along with the structural barriers of the educational system, the well‐rehearsed and traditional conceptions of normality serve to restrict and limit the educational prospects and future perspectives of youth who are deemed to stem from a migration background. These prospects and perspectives for the future have a negative impact on their educational goals and professional‐vocational orientations. Our research also shows that ever more youths and young adults are confronting and grappling with this ethnic‐nationally oriented understanding of education and seeking to find other pathways and detours to move on ahead and develop appropriate conceptions of education and vocational orientations for themselves. The article explores the need for a “post‐inclusive” school and “post‐inclusive” understanding of education, which overcome the well‐rehearsed and historically shaped conceptions of normality in the context of education, opening up new options for action and experience for the young people involved.

Emerging Adulthood ist von Arnett (2000) als eine Lebensphase der Selbstfindung und der Instabilität zwischen der Adoleszenz und dem Erwachsenenalter vorgeschlagen worden. Auf der Grundlage einer Fallstudie fragen wir in diesem Beitrag, wie transnationale Migrationserfahrungen diese Phase beeinflussen. Gleichzeitig reflektieren wir, inwiefern das Konzept der Emerging Adulthood im Kontext von Jugend, transnationaler Migration und sozialer Benachteiligung angemessen ist. Arnetts Konzept betrachten wir eher als ein Narrativ, das zentrale gesellschaftlichen Erwartungen artikuliert. Auf diese Weise eignet es sich als sensibilisierendes Konzept, um Verhältnisse zu beschreiben, die diesen Erwartungen verletzen. Emerging adulthood has been proposed by Arnett (2000) as an extended period of exploration and instability between adolescence and adulthood. Based on a case study, we ask how transnational migration experiences influence this period. In parallel, we also reflect on the adequacy of the concept of emerging adulthood for the study of youth and transnational migration in conditions of social disadvantage. We regard Arnett’s concept as a narrative that articulates central social expectations. As such, it can serve as a sensitizing concept to describe conditions that violate these expectations.

Bielefeld : transcript 2022, 236 S. - (Bildungsforschung; 11) - (Freiburg (CH), Univ., Diss., 2021; Bielefeld, Univ., Diss., 2021 ), Beziehungen können wesentlich zum persönlichen und beruflichen Lebenserfolg von Jugendlichen und jungen Erwachsenen beitragen. Mit einem Fokus auf der Schnittstelle von Behinderung und Migration fragt Chantal Hinni, wie es jungen Menschen gelingt, gemeinschaftliche Werte und Normen in ihr Leben zu integrieren und Beziehungen zu gestalten, die ihnen als Sozialkapital nützlich sind. Sie beleuchtet die bildungssoziologische Frage nach gesellschaftlichen Verteilungsprinzipien im Analyserahmen der Intersektionalität und überführt diese theoretisch und empirisch fundiert in die Anwendung der latenten Klassenanalyse. (DIPF/Verlag)

This chapter discusses the types of policy initiatives which have been introduced to address concerns over the ongoing ‘problem’ of not in education, employment, or training (NEETs) young people. Early intervention policies have been introduced in many countries in an attempt to provide early identification of young people who may be at risk of becoming NEET or dropping out of education. Approaches for identifying those at risk of becoming NEET are therefore focused on whether young people will remain in education, employment, or training following the completion of compulsory education. Reintegration strategy at the level of the individual should involve having systems which identify young people who become NEET and support them to achieve positive outcomes in terms of re-engagement.

Context: This study is about vocational education and training for adults within municipal adult education (MAE). Sweden has a long tradition of adult education, and has one of the world's highest proportions of participants in adult education. The Swedish education system is characterised by extensive marketisation with many private actors, particularly in adult education. The focus of this article is on the enactment of the market orientation in vocational adult education, with the purpose of showing how vocational adult education is organised in different ways in Swedish municipalities and how national adult education policy is enacted in local VET practices. Methods: The data consist of documents presenting relevant national policies for adult education, in particular on vocational education, and semi-structured interviews with adult education leaders in 20 municipalities. Findings: The findings show that MAE in Sweden has a clear labour market focus on offering education that corresponds to working life's labour requirements. Most municipalities have a shortage of staff in elderly care and childcare, which is why they offer a large number of training places in these professions. Many immigrants choose these training programmes to get a job. It is also common for municipalities to offer these training programmes in combination with SFI (Swedish for immigrants). This means that MAE fulfils an important function for integration. VET in MAE is offered as school-based training, apprenticeships or distance education. Offering VET at a distance makes it possible to provide a wider range of training programmes, and enables people who have difficulties participating in on-site training (due to commitments such as work or young children) to take part. Apprenticeship training provides work experience and often leads to employment. However, a weak interest in apprenticeship training among students and difficulties finding apprenticeship placements are examples of reasons why the number of apprenticeships is often very limited. Conclusion: Swedish MAE is characterised by flexibility and a broad supply of courses. However, there is a clear focus on certain vocational areas – mainly within the municipal organisation. This gives reason to question whether publicly funded VET for adults should mainly prepare participants for publicly funded labour-market sectors, or whether other sectors could also benefit from newly trained adults. Since vocational training within MAE is of great importance for immigrants' establishment in the labour market, there is a risk that unilateral investments in certain vocations will limit immigrants' career opportunities.

Expanding the scope of inclusion beyond specific groups such as individuals with disabilities has led to the investigation of school systems’ inclusiveness from the perspective of all students. With this in mind, this research investigated the experiences of students and parents belonging to the ancient Syriac community in Turkey, who inhabited Mesopotamia since the inception of Christianity. Obtaining the views of 43 parents and their 46 children through semi-structured interviews, the school system was investigated at a political, cultural, and practical level in terms of the educational inclusion of Syriac individuals. Overall, student and parent views indicated that: (a) policy-making lacked an approach to reach all students and organize support for diversity; (b) school cultures needed to build a community whereby inclusive values were established; and (c) school practices lacked the organization to target and ensure the learning of all and mobilize resources to achieve this aim. Details of findings are included and discussed. Implications address the importance of building schools that consider the increasingly diverse school populations around the world, with a particular focus on cultural and religious diversity.

Extract ----- Abstract This study identified subgroups of elementary students based on similar patterns of participation in four different types of extended education in Korea. The study also investigated relationships between student patterns of extended education participation and their various demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, including residential location, parental education, and family income level. To achieve these aims, the study used latent profile analysis and logistic regression on a dataset of 18,186 students from 786 elementary schools provided by Statistics Korea. Results reveal five distinctive subgroups of students in terms of extended education participation: afterschool academic program users, shadow education users, moderate afterschool academic program users, ordinary users, and talent development seekers. Results also show that student socioeconomic and demographic characteristics are strongly associated with their classification into the above-mentioned subgroups. These findings signal the possibility that “educational stratification” based on student socioeconomic background may be occurring in the area of extended education. Keywords: extended education, participation, stratification, educational equality ----- Bibliography: Bae, Sang Hoon/Cho, Eunwon/Byun, Bo-Kyung: Stratification in Extended Education Participation and its Implications for Education Inequality, IJREE – International Journal for Research on Extended Education, Vol. 7, Issue 2-2019, pp. 160-177. https://doi.org/10.3224/ijree.v7i2.05