Education is not the “great equalizer” it intends to be. There are increasing educational inequalities between students with different socio-economic and cultural backgrounds. Many students who start their educational career in primary education in a disadvantaged position are not able to catch up. This project aims to examine how primary school teachers through their everyday interactions with students reinforce these differences in the long term or how they can reduce them.

• dr. Lisette Hornstra
• Teuntje van Heese MSc