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2024
2 articles- The Invisible Entrance Fee: On Privilege, Education, and the Institutions That Reproduce Both Education is supposed to reward merit, yet German PISA outcomes remain strongly associated with socioeconomic background. Bourdieu’s theory of capital offers one account of how institutions can reproduce advantage; it is an interpretive framework, not the only causal explanation.
- There Is No Such Thing as Full Accessibility — Only Barrier Reduction The German word ‘Barrierefreiheit’ promises freedom from barriers. That promise is structurally impossible. What we can achieve is Barrierearmut — a reduction of barriers. The difference is not semantic; it has consequences for policy, design, and institutional honesty.