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Challenges in the research on equality in higher education

Challenges in the research on equality in higher education. Andreas Bohonnek (ZSI, Vienna) Klemen Miklavič (CEPS, University of Ljubljana). Quantitative centered research. Weak qualitative research perspective on the society and equality in higher education

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Challenges in the research on equality in higher education

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  1. Challenges in the research on equality in higher education Andreas Bohonnek (ZSI, Vienna) Klemen Miklavič (CEPS, University of Ljubljana)

  2. Quantitative centered research • Weak qualitative research perspective on the society and equality in higher education • Need for viewing the issue through the prism of contemporary norms, political rationalities, imaginaries, ideologies… (equity, equality) • Differing political reports from genuine research • Need for new approaches to equality, reproduction, emancipation

  3. Alternative mechanisms of reproduction, inequality, emancipation • Institutional reputation (ranking, world class university…) • Completion issue and debt • Access to mobility • Destination on the labor market and society • Effect of meritocratic selection • Type of institution • Choice of subject

  4. Western Europe centered literature VARIETY across Europe: • Social • Historical • Cultural

  5. Quantitative challenges Comparability and classification issues • Defining higher education • Ambiguous classifications of levels • Length of degrees • Access to datasets

  6. Use of rational choice analytical tools • The approaches used focus mainly ontheindividuallevel • Little focus onmacro-levelapproaches (e.g. conflicttheories)

  7. Immigrant communities • summarizing existing research which often only focuses on individual countries • Country/society of origin • Family ties (intergenerational closure) • Welfare systems • Soc. deprivation vs. ethnic origin

  8. Discussion

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