The purpose of this survey is to gain increased knowledge about teachers’ and leaders’ representation and participation in collaborations established to strengthen the quality of teacher education programs. The research project is carried out on behalf of the Union of Education in Norway.
The opportunity to move up the socioeconomic ladder, during one’s lifetime and in relation to one’s parents, has been recognized as a key matter for combating poverty and reducing inequality.
This is the premise for the project, to which we add an increasingly relevant dimension by asking: How does the spatial context in which people live during different stages of their lives, shape their life prospects and socioeconomic outcomes?
Over time, the determinants of an individual’s socioeconomic position have evolved from a focus on individual choice, to the family as the main avenue for social reproduction through the transmission of parental endowments and parental investments in their offspring.
More recently, socioeconomic mobility has evolved, as a process that plays out in multiple spheres. The geographical context has been expanded to include larger geographical areas than neighborhoods. The project is justified by a further need for knowledge on what both neighborhood and larger geographical contexts means for opportunities to move up the socioeconomic ladder.
We ask: Is geographical mobility a prerequisite for socioeconomic mobility? What are the potential links between family wealth acquired in regions of different size and centrality, and individual life chances? How does where you grew up as a child matter for labor-market attainment? How do different dimensions of childhood residential and neighborhood context affect adult outcomes?
