Ethnic Heterogenity and the Production of Inequality within Institutions in Educational Organizations from Early Childhood Onward (B01)

• Subject Area: Education Systems and Educational Institutions
• Term: from 2011 to 2016
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 138713964

B1 investigates the (re)production of ethnically coded inequality in educational organizations by means of a practice theoretical, methodically plural, longitudinal ethnography. The mechanisms of the production are presumed to be in pedagogical practices (of differentiation) specific to educa-tional organizations. Central research questions include: How are organization-specific (ethnicity-relevant) pedagogical practices (of differentiation) carried out by professionals? How are these manifested in the individual educational careers of the children? How do the children in question experience this subjectively? The project systematically accompanies 52 children with and without migrant backgrounds on their paths from day care center (DCC) through primary school (funding phase I and II) and into secondary school (funding phase II and III). This kind of data which depicts the educational biographies and careers of the children studied over eight years is unique in re-search on education and inequality.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 882: From Heterogeneities to Inequalities
• Applicant Institution: Universität Bielefeld
• Project Heads: Professorin Dr. Isabell Diehm, from 2/2015 until 6/2015; Professorin Dr. Claudia Machold