Time and place for trial lecture:
Time: December 2nd 2024 09.15 a.m.
Place: Auditorium 2, Eilert Sundts Building
Trial lecture title: Educational stratification: Traditional theories in light of societal changes
Adjudication Committee:
- Professor Carina Mood, Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University
- Professor Arnstein Aassve, Department of Social and Political Sciences, Bocconi University
- Professor Trude Lappegård, Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo
Chair of Defence:
- Professor Grete Brochmann, Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo
Supervisors:
- Dr. Martin Flatø, Norwegian Institute for Public Health
- Professor Torkild Hovde Lyngstad, Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo
The Lasting Impact of Educational Experiences
School shapes our lives from before we begin and well beyond after we leave. Children and adolescents spend a majority of their formative years in school, learning formal and informal skills, creating social networks, and making decisions which set them onto their future career path.
It is not surprising then that our experiences within school have an impact on our lives. At the same time, these experiences in school can have far-reaching consequences which may impact more than our education and career, but also our health, marriage, and fertility.
This dissertation examines the potential short- and long-term consequences of experiences in education, such as being the youngest in a school class, failing and exam, or dropping out and going back to school. A main conclusion of this thesis is that both early and later negative experiences in education do have consequences across the life course, but that this is not necessarily the case across the board and for everyone.
The findings also point to how the structure of the education system can contribute to both developing inequalities and maintaining them across generations. Understanding the potential ways that the school system can contribute to inequality is important for developing evidence-based policies which can contribute to a fair and equitable education system.
- Scientific abstract (English, pdf)
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