To what extent does a child’s educational trajectory depend on their social background? To a large extent, says Professor Marcel Helbig in the WDR 5 podcast “Neugier genügt.”
Educational inequality and the underlying systemic injustice: these issues have always been a topic of discussion when it comes to early childhood and school education. But what factors are primarily responsible for the fact that educational inequality among children grows as they get older?
Professor Marcel Helbig has been studying this question for years. He is the head of the “Structures and Systems” division at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories and says: Inequality begins as early as the early childhood years and is shaped by a wide variety of factors. Is there a way out of this spiral of inequality?
Listen to podcast (in German)