Inequality in Education / Ongelijkheid in het Onderwijs (KNAW Early Career Partnership Symposium)
Channel: De KNAW
Date: 24/03/2022

Inequality in education is one of the defining challenges of our time. What are the causes of inequality? And what can we do to reduce inequality? This hybrid symposium brought together leading experts to discuss these questions. It was funded by a KNAW Early Career Partnership to Eddie Brummelman and held at Trippenhuis on March 9, 2022.


00:00 Introduction by Eddie Brummelman, University of Amsterdam - Addressing Inequality in Education
02:47 Keynote 1 – Mike Savage, London School of Economics - The debate on cultural capital and elitism in education: where do we stand today?
35:46 Keynote 2 – Sharon Wolf, University of Pennsylvania - Why starting early makes all the difference: Addressing early childhood inequality in low/middle income countries
1:05:51 Keynote 3 – David Yeager, University of Texas at Austin - Mindset x context: What we learned from a decade of conducting experiments to reduce inequality at scale
1:32:32 Q&A and Discussion

Read more about the KNAW Early Career Partnerships: https://knaw.nl/early-career-partnerships