Dr. Georg Lorenz
- Associate member of the department of Education and Integration
- Research associate in the externally funded project ISONET
at the Institute for Quality Development in Education (IQB)
phone: +49 (0)30 2093-46264
georg.lorenz@iqb.hu-berlin.de
Research Interests
- Integration processes
- Causes of educational inequalities
- Ethnic segregation
- Network analysis
- Stereotypes/prejudices/discrimination
Academic Career
- since 07/2017: research assistant in the project "Who Succeeds and Who Fails? A Multilevel Social Network Analysis Approach to Immigrants' Psychological and Sociocultural Adaptation in Europe (ISONET)", funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, Institute for Quality Development in Education (IQB)
- since 07/2017: deputy head of the department of education and integration at the Berlin Institute
for Empirical Integration and Migration Research (BIM), Humboldt University Berlin. - 01/2017: Fellow in the College for Interdisciplinary Educational Research (CIDER), funded by BMBF and Jacobs Foundation; www.ciderweb.org
- 04/2016-06/2017: research assistant at the Berlin Institute
for Empirical Integration and Migration Research (BIM), Humboldt University Berlin. - 03/2015-09/2015: research associate at the Chair of Sociology, in particular Social Structural Analysis, Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg
- 03/2012-02/2015: research associate in the project "Acquisition of Competencies and Learning Pre-conditions (KuL)" under the direction of Prof. Dr. Cornelia Kristen, Prof. Dr. Petra Stanat
and Prof. Dr. Irena Kogan, funded by the BMBF, Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg - 10/2010-02/2012: research associate at the Chair of Sociology, especially Social Structure Analysis, Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg
- 05/2009-09/2010: research assistant in the Free Floater Junior Research Group "Ethnic Educational Inequalities" (established within the Excellence Initiative and led by Prof. Dr. Cornelia Kristen), Georg-August-University Göttingen
- until 05/2009: Study of Sociology, University of Leipzig, Degree: Diplom
Publications
- Lorenz, Georg (2018), Self-fulfilling prophecies in school. Teachers' performance expectations and competencies of children with an immigrant background. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-19881-7
- Gentrup, Sarah, Camilla Rjosk, Petra Stanat, and Georg Lorenz (2018), Assessments of school motivation by elementary school teachers and their relevance for biases in achievement expectations. Journal of Educational Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11618-018-0806-2
- Lorenz, Georg, and Sarah Gentrup (2017), Teacher expectations and the educational success of immigrant students. In Diversity in the classroom. How Teachers Can Promote Good Performance, ed. Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research (BIM), and Research Area at the Expert Council of German Foundations on Integration and Migration (SVR Research Area), 24-37. Berlin.
- Lorenz, Georg, and Tim Müller (2017), Teachers' attitudes toward aspects of diversity: being German, religious policy, and Muslims. In Diversity in the classroom. How Teachers Can Promote Good Performance, ed. Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research (BIM), and Research Area at the Expert Council of German Foundations on Integration and Migration (SVR Research Area), 10-23. Berlin.
- Lorenz, Georg, Sarah Gentrup, Cornelia Kristen, Petra Stanat, and Irena Kogan (2016), Stereotypes in teachers? An investigation of systematically biased teacher expectations. Cologne Journal of Sociology and Social Psychology 68:89-111. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11577-015-0352-3
- Wenz, Sebastian, Melanie Olczyk, and Georg Lorenz (2016), Measuring teachers' stereotypes in the NEPS. NEPS Survey Paper No. 3. Bamberg: Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories, National Educational Panel Study.
- Fleischmann, Fenella, Cornelia Kristen, Anthony F. Heath, Yaël Brinbaum, Patrick Deboosere, Nadia Granato, Jan O. Jonsson, Elina Kilpi-Jakonen, Georg Lorenz, Amy C. Lutz, David Mos, Raya Mutarrak, Karen Phalet, Catherine Rothon, Frida Rudolphi, and Herman G. van de Werfhorst (2014), Gender inequalities in the education of the second generation in Western countries. Sociology of Education 87:143-170. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038040714537836
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