🎓 How Family Background Affects Children’s Differences in School Performance? 📚 | ENS-PSL

Do you know why the major source of children’s differences in school performance is family background and not schools ? Join us for an enlightening presentation by Sophie von Stumm from the University of York, UK, as part of the Colloquium hosted by the Department of Cognitive Studies at ENS-PSL 🎓 .

This talk delves into the crucial question of why and how family background influences children’s educational outcomes, a factor with far-reaching implications for their education, health, and wellbeing.

Children’s differences in school performance have pervasive long-term influence. They are are evident from the first day of primary school and are relatively stable throughout the years of compulsory education. Understanding why and how family background inequalities produce differences in children’s education is key for designing effective interventions that improve children’s life outcomes.

In this talk, Sophie von Stumm chose to focus on the role of the gene-environment interplay in the transmission of family background inequality in education, which has often been ignored in previous research. Yet, children select, modify, and create their environments according to their genetic propensities, which in turn become drivers of children’s complex, reciprocal transactions and interactions with the environment that produce their educational differences.

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👩‍🏫Learn more about the speaker Sophie von Stumm
https://savoirs.ens.fr/conferencier.p...

🌟 Colloquium Series 2023-2024: This presentation is part of the ongoing Colloquium series by the Department of Cognitive Studies at ENS-PSL, which aims to address key topics in education and cognitive development through expert insights and cutting-edge research.

Don't miss this opportunity to deepen your understanding of the factors shaping children’s school performance and to explore innovative approaches to promoting educational equity! 📖


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