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Are schools’ qualification and civic outcomes related? : the role of schools’ student composition and tracking
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1746-1979; 1746-1987
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Education, citizenship and social justice, 2023, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 263-279
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MENNES, Hester, VAN DE WERFHORST, Herman G., DIJKSTRA, Anne Bert, MUNNIKSMA, Anke, Are schools’ qualification and civic outcomes related? : the role of schools’ student composition and tracking, Education, citizenship and social justice, 2023, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 263-279 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/74914
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In preparing generations for the future, schools fulfill a qualification and a civic task: providing youngsters knowledge and skills for the labor market, and equipping them to navigate democracy and society. Little research has considered how schools combine these tasks, particularly in relation to schools’ student composition in terms of socioeconomic (dis)advantages across vocational and academic tracks, the focus of this study. By means of a unique, combined dataset, qualification and civic outcome indicators of 101 Dutch secondary schools were examined. Results showed that schools’ qualification and civic outcomes were more positively related in academic than in vocational tracks, possibly informed by schools’ student composition: the role of student composition was stronger in academic than vocational tracks for both qualification and civic outcomes. This is discussed in relation to schools’ role in mitigating versus reproducing societal inequalities.
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Published online: 4 September 2022