Research project Educational Segregation in Sweden: Dynamics, Mechanisms and Effects
The project will studies educational segregation in different dimensions during an era of substantial changes to the education sector, and it aims to shed light on this issue at different levels: at compulsory school, high-schooland at the tertiary level of education.
The overall objective of my proposal is to study educational segregation in Sweden in the light of three major phenomena during the past 30 years: far-reaching school reforms, immigration, and women starting to dominate men in educational outcomes. This apparently broad research agenda has two common themes: (1) Educational segregation, which in this project is defined to span inequality of outcomes between schools, school segregation (w.r.t immigrant background; ability; gender), and segregation in educational choices between women and men; (2) The associations between major phenomena (far-reaching school reforms; immigration; women starting to dominate men in educational outcomes) and educational segregation over long periods of time. The project will thus study educational segregation in different dimensions during an era of substantial changes to the education sector, and it aims to shed light on this issue at different levels: at compulsory school, high-schooland at the tertiary level of education.