What Drives Regional Disparities in Educational Expansion: School Reform, Modernization, or Social Structure?

Autor/inn/en	Helbig, Marcel; Sendzik, Norbert
Titel	What Drives Regional Disparities in Educational Expansion: School Reform, Modernization, or Social Structure?
Quelle	In: Education Sciences, 12 (2022), Artikel 175 (31 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Educational Development; Geographic Regions; Educational Policy; Educational Change; Social Structure; Social Change; Educational Legislation; Access to Education; Equal Education; Elementary Secondary Education; Higher Education; Educational Attainment; Gender Differences; Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Bildungsentwicklung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Bildungsreform; Sozialstruktur; Sozialer Wandel; Bildungsrecht; Schulgesetz; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Geschlechterkonflikt; Deutschland
Abstract	The aim of this study is to empirically investigate the reasons for regional disparities in educational expansion in Germany (i.e., rising rates of general university entrance qualification) on the basis of theoretically relevant influencing factors: changes in school policies, changes in social structure, or general social modernization processes. We pay special attention to the legal framework of schools, which has changed at different times in the German states. Our analysis is based on data from the National Educational Panel Study and on a database on the development of schooling regulations in the German states after World War II. For the analysis, we use two-way crossed random-effects models. Our analyses show that the modernization of school structures is only associated with increasing individual opportunities to access higher school education. However, this association disappears when controlling for social structure and cohort sequence. Rather, the educational expansion of the recent decades is characterized by a changed social structure and, in small parts, by general social modernization processes. In light of our findings, we argue that educational policy adapts school structures to societal changes, opens up new opportunities, yet at the same time reproduces and exacerbates educational inequality. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01