Session Information
20 SES 10 A, ‘Super-Diversity’ in Urban Areas and their Schools: Research on Multilingualism and Multiculturalism
Symposium
Contribution
A framework for the Symposium is Steven Vertovec’s concept of ‘Super-Diversity’. The guiding questions of the Symposium are: how are different kinds of diversity actually perceived and encountered in daily (school) life, and what might be the cultural, social and educational effects of such encounters. The concept of ‘Super-diversity’ intends to underline a level and kind of complexity surpassing anything previously experienced in European societies: there exists a growing degree of mobility of people; new and increasingly complex social formations develop, marked by dynamic interplays of variables, including: linguistic and cultural features of individual existence and the society as a whole. These features co-condition integration outcomes in a broad sense, including the development of cultural capital (particularly educational background). The symposium will focus on two aspects of this scenario: the aspect of linguistic diversity on the one hand, the aspect of media on the other.
With respect to linguistic diversity, the symposium will deal with research on children of immigrant minorities and their linguistic development. The research projects presented take as their starting point the observation of a general disadvantage of these children in European school systems. This can’t be fully explained by conventional explanations, namely social background of the families. A residuum of the explanation is bound to features of the education systems and – this is the hypothesis of the research projects presented – on the mismatch of these and the linguistic prerequisites of immigrant children: Education systems with a ‘monolingual habitus’ (Gogolin 1977) fail to deal successfully with linguistic super-diversity among students. With respect to cultural diversity, the presentations will deal with the importance of social segmentation and milieus and their impact on the media and literacy habitus of young people.
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