© Marco Bakker

Chair International comparative research on educational performance and social inequality

Maastricht University

Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market | ROA
General ROA phone: +31433883647

Maastricht E-mail: j.dronkers@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Maastricht Personal homepage: http://www.roa.unimaas.nl/cv/dronkers/nw_dronkers.htm

EUI E-mail: jaap.dronkers@eui.eu

EUI Personal homepage: http://www.eui.eu/Personal/Dronkers

EUI contact: Maureen Lechleitner, phone +39-055-4685244. e-mail: Maureen.Lechleitner@eui.eu

Private address: Kleverparkweg 58 zwart

2023 CG Haarlem, the Netherlands

Private mobile: +31681538560

 

Biographical note

Jaap Dronkers was born in Amsterdam in 1945 and studied sociology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam He has been head of Research of Education and Sociology at SISWO (1976–1986), Associate Professor of the Sociology of Education and Empirical Sociology at the Catholic University of Brabant in Tilburg (1986–1990), Chair in Educational Sciences (1990–1999), and Chair in Empirical Sociology (1999–2001) both at the University of Amsterdam. Prof. Dronkers was Dean of the Faculty of Educational Sciences and Pedagogy of the University of Amsterdam (1994–1998) and visiting scholar at the Max-Planck Institute for Human Development (1998–1999). Between September 2001 until November 2009 he was Professor of Social Stratification and Inequality at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. From December 2009 he holds the chair international comparative research on educational performance and social inequality at the Maastricht University.

Since 2002 he has been one of the organisers of the European Network for the Sociological and Demographic Study of Divorce. During 2006/2007 he has been Director of the European Forum The Quality of Education and its Relationships with Inequality in European and Other Modern Societies.

He has been a member of editorial boards of Mens en Maatschappij (1980–2001), Netherlands' Journal of Social Sciences (1987–1996), Social Psychology of Education (since 1995), Educational Research and Evaluation (since 1995), Sociology of Education (1997–2000), Research on Finnish Society (since 2007), American Sociological Review (since 2009),  Virtus, Yearbook for the history of the nobility (since 2009) and the Italian Journal of Sociology of Education (since 2009). He was also secretary and president of the Dutch Association of Sociology (1987–1995), president of the Dutch Association for Research on Education and Social Inequality (1987–1998), and member of the board (1982–1986), secretary (1986–1994) and president (1994–1998) of Research Committee Sociology of Education of the International Sociological Association. Since 2001 Prof. Dronkers has been a member of the Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (Royal Holland Society of Sciences). In 2009 he was recipient of the Professor Leune Award for his contribution to educational innovation.

He has published on the causes and consequences of unequal educational and occupational attainment, changes in educational opportunities, effect-differences between public and religious schools, the educational and occupational achievement of migrants from different origins and in various countries of destination, the linkages between school and the labour market, the effects of parental divorce on children, cross-national differences in causes of divorce, education of Dutch elites, and European nobility. He also participates in public debates on topics related to his research.

A more personal C.V. can be found in EUI Review, Spring 2002

 

Further content of this homepage

Major non-Dutch publications (updated 24 July 2009)

Major Dutch publications (updated 11 November 2009)

Non-Dutch (working) papers and lectures (updated 24 July 2010)

Dutch (working) papers and lectures (updated 18 June 2010)

Inaugural lecture as professor at the Maastricht university 17th June 2010:  Positive but also negative effects of ethnic diversity in schools on educational achievement? An empirical test with cross-national PISA data.  Dutch text. English text.

Contributions to the public debate (updated 10 July 2010)

Trouw schoolprestaties 2009

Ph.D. students inside and outside the EUI (updated 3 June 2010)

Supervised Ph.D. theses (updated 3 June 2010)

7th frame work research program: Religious education in a multicultural society: School and home in comparative context (REMC)

European Network for the Sociological and Demographic Study of Divorce (updated 6 July 2009)

Nobility in Europe during the 20th Century: Memories, Loyalties and Advantages in Context, Invited workshop 15-16 June 2009. Program. Abstracts. Available papers (updated 11 June 2009)

Spring conference RC28 15-17 May 2008: Social stratification and insiders/outsiders: cross-national comparisons within and between continents.

European Forum 2006-2007 Assessing the Quality of Education and Its Relationships with Inequality in European and Other Modern Societies. Content of book produced by the European Forum 2006-2007 (updated 22 October 2009)

 

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