The European Sociological Association (ESA) aims to facilitate sociological research, teaching and communication on European issues, and to give sociology a voice in European affairs. This year the 9th European Sociological Association Conference was held between the 2nd and the 5th of September 2009, in Lisbon, Portugal, under the general title of “European Society or European Societies”?
Parts of the INCLUD-ED Integrated Project (FP6, 2006-2011) results were presented at this conference in the Research Network Sociology of Education. Members of the Include-Ed Project presented two papers about the findings obtained during the first year in relation to European Educational Systems and successful practices which increase equity and efficiency in education. Lídia Puigvert (member of the General Coordination team) and Adriana Aubert from the University of Barcelona presented a paper written in collaboration with partners Laura Engels (University of Nottingham, United Kingdom) and Teodor Alexiu Mircea (Universitatea de Vest din Timisoara, Romania) entitled “Overcoming educational inequalities: Differences between mixture, streaming and inclusion” on September the 4th, 2009.
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