Ethnic Difference and Inequality. An Ethnographic Study of Early Childhood Educational Organizations.

Abstract

Based on a practice theoretical research project on the (re-)production of ethnically coded inequality in the educational organization of day care centers and primary schools, this essay reconstructs two patterns of the potential origins of inequality and discusses them in the context of educational policy standards. Designed as a longitudinal ethnographic study the project uses the example of a documentary and practice analysis of a language screening procedure. The methodological challenges of ethnographic research on inequality shall also be problematized.