TY - JOUR
T1 - Researching Integration in Multiethnic Italian Schools. A Sociological Review on Educational Inequalities
AU - Santagati, Mariagrazia
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - The article offers a review of the main sociological studies on school integration of students with an immigrant background, carried out in the past 15 years in Italy. Italian research on this topic is still not recognized at international level, but Italy can be considered an interesting case study due to the recent, rapid and exponential increase of immigrant students and the contradictions emerging from the attempt to turn an inclusive educational model into integration practices. The review identifies educational achievements and interethnic relationships as crucial components of school integration in multiethnic schools, highlighting strengths and weaknesses of the Italian sociological research. Finally, a model for the analysis of school integration of immigrant students will be proposed, which combines individual, relational, institutional, structural, and personal agency factors.
AB - The article offers a review of the main sociological studies on school integration of students with an immigrant background, carried out in the past 15 years in Italy. Italian research on this topic is still not recognized at international level, but Italy can be considered an interesting case study due to the recent, rapid and exponential increase of immigrant students and the contradictions emerging from the attempt to turn an inclusive educational model into integration practices. The review identifies educational achievements and interethnic relationships as crucial components of school integration in multiethnic schools, highlighting strengths and weaknesses of the Italian sociological research. Finally, a model for the analysis of school integration of immigrant students will be proposed, which combines individual, relational, institutional, structural, and personal agency factors.
KW - academic achievement
KW - equity
KW - immigration/immigrants
KW - interethnic relationships
KW - academic achievement
KW - equity
KW - immigration/immigrants
KW - interethnic relationships
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/69911
UR - http://ijse.padovauniversitypress.it/2015/3/13
U2 - 10.14658/pupj-ijse-2015-3-13
DO - 10.14658/pupj-ijse-2015-3-13
M3 - Article
SN - 2035-4983
VL - 7
SP - 294
EP - 334
JO - Italian Journal of Sociology of Education
JF - Italian Journal of Sociology of Education
ER -