Zeitschrift fur Erziehungswissenschaft
Volume 19, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 745-764

The risk of delayed school entry in relation to migration background in different institutional settings: Can reformed school entry procedures buffer ethnic educational inequality at school start? [Unterschiede zwischen Migrantengruppen im Risiko einer Rückstellung von der Einschulung in verschiedenen Einschulungssettings: Verringern alternative Einschulungsverfahren ethnische Ungleichheiten zu Schulbeginn?] (Article)

Tuppat J.* , Becker B. , Lange M.
  • a Institut für Soziologie, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 6, Frankfurt, 60629, Germany
  • b Institut für Soziologie, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 6, Frankfurt, 60629, Germany
  • c Technische Universität Darmstadt, Karolinenplatz 5, Darmstadt, 64289, Germany

Abstract

In Germany, children of immigrants are faced with delayed school entry about twice as often as children of native-born parents because they are more often diagnosed not being ready for school. We investigate these early educational inequalities, focusing on the interplay of individual competencies and the institutional context in terms of the school enrollment procedure. We compare the conventional procedure, where school enrollment is supposed to be bound on school readiness, with reformed procedures where school enrollment is not supposed to be bound on school readiness. Data of school entry examinations from Hesse, Germany from 2008–2012 are analyzed (N = 50,717). The results show that children of immigrants from all origin groups have a substantially higher risk of obtaining a recommendation for delayed school entry than children of native-born parents. However, these ethnic differences are strongly reduced in the reformed procedures as compared to the conventional school enrollment procedure, indicating that these procedures could be an effective measure to reduce ethnic educational inequalities at school start. © 2016, Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden.

Author Keywords

Ethnic educational inequality School readiness Children of immigrants School enrollment procedure Delayed school entry

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84994236199&doi=10.1007%2fs11618-016-0684-4&partnerID=40&md5=e9a9bebd11741074adec344b1fde44e8
DOI: 10.1007/s11618-016-0684-4
ISSN: 1434663X
Original Language: English