Session Information
04 SES 02 B, Policy and Ethnic Diversity
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Contribution
The presentation draws from results of EDUMIGROM, which is a comparative European research that was conducted under FP7 collaborative research framework. The research project investigated ethnic differences in education and prospect for ethnic minority youth studying in ethnically diverse urban schools. The research included eight countries 4 from post communist countries of Central Europe, where it focused on Roma youth and four in old memberstates of the EU, where it centered around experiences of 2+ generation migrants. The research aimed to (1) investigate factors that forge ethnic differences in education and their consequences for the lives of young people in ethnically diverse communities throughout Europe; (2) to study in cross-national perspective how everyday interactions in urban communities generate distinctive school practices; (3) to examine how the discourses, patterns, and performances of identity formation among young people are constituted through school practices; (4) to study and compare how educational practices and identity formation contribute to claims on citizenship.
The proposed paper will present results of EDUMIGROM research concerning how the ethnic composition of the school and the schools’ policy towards ethnic diversity affects everyday life of adolescent youth in school. More particularly ,it will show how different constellations of school composition and the consciousness of the school personnel towards minorities affect interethnic relationships, friendships, future aspirations, school performance the general atmosphere of the school and the class as perceived by students. The presentation will show different angles: that of the students’, the teachers’, and parents’. The presentation will show result of two research faces: the survey, which was run among adolescent students in their final year of compulsory education, and the qualitative community study which mapped opinions of all the included partners: parents, students, teachers, school and community leaders.
The presentation will first show the most typical mechanisms that lead to the separation of ethnic minority students in schools. The research found that separation of ethnic minority students into distinct schools or classes is present in all of the studied countries, though at different extent and with varying consequences. The presentation will demonstrate that the socio-ethnic composition of the school and the class extensively affects student performance, aspiration and interpersonal relations. This effect is though not identical in different countries and among other factors it has a lot to do with the historically shaped traditions of interethnic relations in the country and with the consciousness of the school towards the special student population it treats.
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