Submitted by Administrator on Mon, 03/11/2014 - 16:14
Leire Salazar, together with Hector Cebolla and Jonas Radl, has just been awarded the la Caixa Prize in the Social Sciences 2013 for their manuscript Aprendizaje y ciclo vital: la desigualdad de oportunidades desde la educacion preescolar hasta la edad adulta [Learning and the Life Course: Inequality of Educational Opportunities from Preschool to Adulthood]. The book analyses, for a large sample of rich countries, inequalities by social background in several indicators of learning and school performance in the various stages of the academic trajectories of individuals. The manuscript is expected to be published in three languages in the coming months and to be presented to the media before the end of 2014.
The aim of the la Caixa Prize is to reward analysis and debate on the transformations that contemporary society faces. This could relate to social, environmental, technological, and health related challenges, or a combination of these. la Caixa Banking Foundation is the largest foundation in continental Europe and the world’s third largest.
Leire is a Visiting Scholar in Professor Claire Hughes's research group; she will be in the Department until February 2015. She would be pleased to discuss her research on inequality with members of Department.