Project Details
Projekt
Self processes and pupil careers: an interactionist approach to structural reproduction
Subject Area
Education Systems and Educational Institutions
Term
from 2015 to 2019
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 281649138
Our project asks for the processes in which children become successful or less successful learners. It focusses on interactions between all participants (parents, children, and teachers) and their relevance for childrens selfprocesses. Our research is interested in these interactions fostering or impairing educational success with regard to social inequality. Interactions are therefore analyzed in the twofold interest: for their social structural embeddedness and their relevance for educational careers. The project combines the theoretical approach of symbolic interactionist sociology with concepts and empirical results of research on learning and instruction. Methodologically, the study updates an existing longitudinal study with mixed methods design (questionnaires in school classes and family portraits). The longitudinal study started with second graders, this means that the transition of pupils to different secondary schools can now be studied. The project is innovative in its application of an interactionist model in the analysis of structural reproduction processes and in the combination of sociological theories and theories of research on learning and instruction. Further, it promises the transfer of valuable knowledge to various practical fields of education.
DFG Programme
Research Grants
Cooperation Partner
Professorin Dr. Alexandra König
