Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Programme of the conference

 

Location:  The main building of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Address: Národní 3, Praha 1 (see location on the map)

 

Thursday – August 31

18:00 – 20:30 Registration and welcome drink in wine cellar Monarch, address: Na Perštýně 15, 110 00 Praha 1 (see location on the map)
 

 

Friday – September 1

 

8:30 – 9:00 Registration

 

9:00 – 9:15 Welcome & organizational matters  (Hans-Peter Blossfeld and Petr Matějů)

 

9:15 – 10:45 Plenary session I

 

Chair: Hans-Peter Blossfeld

 

Levels Mark, Dronkers Jaap, Kraaykamp Gerbert :The importance of origin and destination for scholastic achievement of immigrant: A cross-national comparison with macro-level explanations

 

Hauser, Robert, M., Frederick, Carl B.,  Megan, Andrew: Grade Retention in the Age of Accountability

 

Matějů Petr, Soukup Petr, Basl Josef: Educational aspirations in comparative perspective

 

 

10:45 – 11:00 Coffee break

 

11:00 – 12:30 Parallel sessions

 

Session A

 

Chair: Peter Róbert

 

Veselý Arnošt: Where does social capital come from? Analysis of family, school and peers factors in PISA-L dataset

Täht Kadri, Ganzeboom, Harry B.G.: Parent’s work schedules and children’s educational achievement

Simonová, Natalie: Educational inequality in the Czech Republic from mobility perspective

 

 

Session B

 

Chair: Hans Dietrich

Abburá Luciano: As good as the others. Northern Italian students and their peers in other European regions

Rusconi Alessandra: Student’s educational achievements in international comparison: Trade-off between efficiency and integration?

González Isaac, Alegre Miquel Ángel: The causes and effects of concentrations of immigrant pupils at certain schools. More than a cultural debate.

 

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

 

13:30 – 15:00 Plenary session II

 

Chair: Paul de Graaf

 

Becker Rolf, Schubert Frank: Social inequality of reading literacy in Germany: A longitudinal analysis with cross-sectional data of PIRLS 2001 and PISA-E 2000 utilizing the pairwise matching procedure

 

Kurz Karin, Maurice von Jutta, Paulus Wiebke: Education processes, competence development, and selection decisions in preschool and primary school age: Design of the BiKS study and first results

 

Dietrich Hans: Does enterprise matter? Firm-specific effects of the transition from apprenticeship training to employment in Germany

 

15:00 -15:15 Coffee break

 

15:15 – 16:45 Parallel sessions

 

Session C

 

Chair: Jaap Dronkers

 

Leuze Kathrin: The political economy of gender segregation in graduate labour markets

 

Roosalu Triin: Mothers´ freedom to choose the preferred working hours: does education make the difference?

 

Alieva Aigul: Educational performance of immigrant children in small European nations: comparison of Luxembourg and Switzerland

 

Session D

 

Chair: Harry B. Ganzeboom

 

Ferrer Esteban Gerard J.: A comparative overview on inequalities through PISA 2003 in Europe 

Krajnc Tavčar Marina: Social dimensions of student population in Slovenia

Khattab Nabil: Ethnicity and educational differences in Britain: Persisting inequalities

 

17:00 – 18:30 ECSR Council meeting

 

Saturday – September 2

 

9:15 – 10:45 Plenary session III

 

Chair: Robert M. Hauser

Kogan Irena: Educational systems and labor markets in post-socialist Eastern and Central Europe

Róbert Péter: The influence of educational segregation on school achievement: An international comparison. Lessons from the PISA 2003 survey.

Saar Ellu, Helemäe Jelena, Roosma Eve-Liis: Estonia on the backdrop of the European Union states: Country-specific institutional context and lifelong learning

 

10:45 – 11:00 Coffee break

 

11:00 – 12:30 Parallel sessions

 

Session A

 

Chair: Irena Kogan

 

Katrňák Tomáš, Fučík Petr: Is there a relationship between social mobility and educational homogamy?

 

Schneider Thorsten: Does the effect of social origins on educational participation change over the life course?

Gabay-Egozi Limor, Shavit Yossi,Yaish Meir: The dynamics of educational decision making process

 

 Session B

 

Chair: Karin Kurz

 

Buis Maarten, Ganzeboom, Harry B.G.: Analyzing the Trend in Inequality of Educational Opportunity in the Netherlands using Stacked Surveys with Missing Data

Meraviglia Cinzia, Dronkers Jaap, Lucchini Mario, Bison Ivano, Ganzeboom, Harry B.G.: Inequality in educational attainment in Italy, 1963 - 2005

Nicaise Idesbald, D´Addio Anna, Groenez Steven: You don´t see what you see. Selection bias in the measurement of educational (in)equality and educational performance

 

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

 

13:30 – 15:00 Parallel sessions

 

Session C

 

Chair: Paul de Graaf

Flere Sergej: The relationship between IQ and social inequalities in educational attainment

Haines Steve: Discriminating contexts: How do institutionalized socio-economic and  socio-cultural influences in 14-19 education and training policy affect the educational outcomes of disabled young people?

Tavares Lara: Looking into the black box: The role of non-cognitive skils in educational attainment

 

Session D

 

Chair: Petr Matějů

 

Straková Jana: Impact of the structure of education system on the development of educational inequalities in the Czech Republic

 

Helšusová-Václaviková Lenka: School’s attitude towards children’s reading and its impact on education and further educability of children

 

Roman Mihai, Marin Dumitru, Roman Monica: Methods of educational process efficiency analysis

 

 

15:00 -15:15 Coffee Break

 

15:15 – 16:45 Parallel sessions

 

Session E

 

Chair: Jana Straková

Pfeffer Fabian T.: The institutional context of educational attainment: The case of  parental education and individual attainment in comparative perspective

Valiente Oscar, Benito Ricard: Expanding school choice to reduce segregation

Gaber Slavko, Poljanšek Matjaž: Reproduction of Inequalities and Education - Examples from Primary and Higher Education

 

Session F

 

Chair: Arnošt Veselý

 

Aas Kadri, Parri  Janne: National examination scores as predictors of university students´ performance in Estonia

 

Huisman Janine, Smits Jeroen: Differences in school characteristics and the consequences for enrollment in 350 regions of 35 developing countries

 

Webbink Elen, Smits Jeroen: Education and child labor in 9 developing countries: Effects of parental education, occupation and wealth

 

 

19:00 Conference Dinner (Restaurant Olympia, address Vítězná 7, 110 00 Praha 1, see the map)