Integration and Inequality in Educational Institutions
This volume addresses questions that lie at the core of research into education. It examines the way in which the institutional embeddedness and the social and ethnic composition of students affect educational performance, skill formation, and behavioral
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Integration and Inequality in Educational Institutions
Integration and Inequality in Educational Institutions
Michael Windzio Editor
Integration and Inequality in Educational Institutions
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Editor Michael Windzio Institute of Empirical and Applied Sociology University of Bremen Bremen Germany
ISBN 978-94-007-6118-6 DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-6119-3
ISBN 978-94-007-6119-3
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Foreword
The social sciences are a dynamic area at the University of Bremen. Researchers work in a highly ambitious environment and research is stimulated by many discussions with brilliant minds from different fields. Nonetheless, some persons still stand out. One such person is Stephan Leibfried who, early in 2010, came to me with the idea to conduct a workshop on the current research about educational institutions. He left it to me to define the main focus and the substantial details of this workshop. Stephan also arranged the contact to the TH Marshall Fellowship Programme, which is a collaborative exchange programme of the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB, Social Science Research Center
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