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This book presents evidence on the nature and magnitude of the literacy gaps faced by OECD countries.
The immigrant population in Denmark is one of the smallest in Western Europe but is made up of highly diverse groups coming from about 200 different countries. Compared to their native Danish peers, immigrant students, on average, leave compulsory ...
In many countries, concern about socio-economic inequalities in educational attainment has focused on inequalities in test scores and grades. The presumption has been that the best way to reduce inequalities in educational outcomes is to reduce inequalities in performance. But is this presumption correct? Determined to Succeed? is the first book to offer a comprehensive cross-national examination of the roles of performance and choice in generating inequalities in educational attainment. It combines in-depth studies by country specialists with chapters discussing more general empirical, methodological, and theoretical aspects of educational inequality. The aim is to investigate to what extent inequalities in educational attainment can be attributed to differences in academic performance between socio-economic groups, and to what extent they can be attributed to differences in the choices made by students from these groups. The contributors focus predominantly on inequalities related to parental class and parental education.
This publication examines the results of the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2003 study from a Nordic perspective, covering the countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. The PISA 2003 study focused on mathematical literacy, with less detailed assessments of science and reading.
The main idea of the working group was to have a sample of different answers to common problems, shared by most if not all western industrialised countries. But these common problems are embedded in very different systems of social protection. Ansewers are different, both in process and content. This book will give a rather diverse and broad overview of problems and solutions in adapting social security systems to the environnement of the XXIst century
I Studier i pAedagogisk sociologi kortlAegger forskere fra DPU - Danmarks Institut for PAedagogik og Uddannelse - den pAedagogiske sociologis udvikling og aktualitet. Bogen indeholder kapitler om bade national og transnational uddannelsespolitik og om uddannelsesinstitutionernes didaktik og faglighed pa forskellige uddannelsestrin. Desuden er der kapitler om intervention, ulighed og monsterbrydning i uddannelsessystemet og eksempler pa sAerlige metodiske tilgange til den pAedagogiske sociologi.Studier i pAedagogisk sociologi kan lAeses som et bidrag til en forstaelse af de komplekse politiske, sociale og organisatoriske sammenhAenge, der danner ramme om pAedagogisk praksis pa tvAers af uddannelsesomrader og -institutioner.Bogen er isAer henvendt til studerende pa kandidatuddannelsen i pAedagogisk sociologi og pa professionsuddannelserne. De 20 kapitler giver os ny viden om, hvordan vi kan forsta og handtere borns, unges og voksnes lAering og socialisering i et samfundsmAessigt perspektiv.