Pathways to Resilience IV: Global South Perspectives

Social mobility: Equity and resilience - a research program 
Presenter: Ida Skytte Jakobsen (Univerty college lillebealt, Denmark)
Co-Authors: Thomas Engsig, Anne Marie Villumsen
Introduction: National Research Centre for Vulnerable Children and Youth NUBU is a new collaboration between the all the seven independent University colleges in Denmark. The aim of NUBU is to strengthen and unifying , practice-oriented profession and relevant solutions to societal challenges in the field of Vulnerable Children and Youth. 
Methods: We would like to present the first research program in the center: Social mobility: Equity and resilience. The research program Social mobility: Equity and resilience focuses on creating knowledge about the factors and processes that constitute the conditions for equity and resilience in schools, day care and educational practice. This application-oriented knowledge can contribute to the professions' work to create educational social mobility for children and young people in day care and school. 
Findings: the research program's intention to create systematized knowledge of the various barriers that prevent schools, day care and educational practice creates resilience and is characterized by equity, where differences in child and adolescent development, learning and wellbeing is not due to social background.