Donnerstag, 19.05.2022
Ringvorlesung ONLINE
AURORA Lecture series: Inequality in education – research traditions in selected countries in Europe and beyond
17:15 - 18:45 Uhr
online, Guest-links and passwords for each session have to be requested individually via Lenz.Luther@student.uibk.ac.at; for students registration: 800871
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Vortragende/r
Laura Fónadová
Laura Fónadová received her PhD in sociology at the Faculty of Social Studies, at Masaryk University in Brno (Czech Republic).
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Short CV
She currently works as an assistant professor at the Department of Public Economics
at the Faculty of Economics and Administration at Masaryk University as well as a researcher at the Czech public research centre RILSA (Research Institute for Labor and Social Affairs). Her research interests focus on issues of ethnicity, ethnic inequality, and social mobility. Laura has worked on projects related to ethnic inequalities in the Czech educational system, previously also on the revenue structure of Czech non-profit institutions. Her current research is aimed at the Roma population in the Czech Republic. She participates in the project developing a methodology of quantitative data collection suitable for evaluating the situation of Roma in Czech society. She has published in European Sociological Review, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Czech Sociological Review, Slovak Sociological Review, and in several Czech monographs. She is an author of the monograph They Would Not have been Excluded: Upward Social Pathways of the Roma in Czech Society (in Czech, 2014). Contact email address: laura@econ.muni.cz.
Abstract – presentation
After 1989, the Czech Republic underwent economic, political, and social transformations that led the country to gradual convergence with Western European societies. On the margins of mainstream sociological research, analyses of the impact of ethnicity on educational attainment gradually began to emerge. The results of these studies can be found not only in sociological papers and books but also in official reports and policy documents of various organizations including the Czech governmental authorities. This talk presents a review of this literature produced from 1990 to the very recent past.
The lecture has the following structure. First, I briefly describe the Czech educational system, the main ethnic minority groups, and migration patterns in the country. Then, the role of ethnicity in the Czech education system follows. Based on the existing evidence can be concluded that ethnicity is a fundamental social determinant of educational inequalities in the Czech Republic. The relationship between ethnicity and educational inequalities in Czech society is most markedly related to Roma children. The literature related to this topic in the Czech context can be divided into three traditions, which have developed in chronological order and are thematically linked. The main line of the lecture is defined by the subtitle “from ethnic discrimination to social inclusion”, which describes in short, the development of writing about ethnic disadvantages in the Czech educational system.
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Barbara Herzog-Punzenberger
Professor of educational sciences