PUBLIC OR INTERNATIONAL? MIGRATING STUDENTS IN TWO TYPES OF SCHOOLS OF POZNAŃ

• Authors: Izabela Czerniejewska
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article concerns distinct contexts of schooling for migrant children who are enrolled in private and public educational institutions in Poznań, Poland. In my study, I recognized that although the schools have different methodologies and languages of instruction, teachers expect the same obvious and predictable patterns of migration – either the children will stay in a country permanently or the children will immigrate somewhere else. This factor – educator expectations – can have more consequences on migrant children’s experiences than the differences between type of school – public or private. The exploratory fieldwork was conducted twice, once in 2010 and once 2013, in the same schools with the same group of students and teachers. In the article, I tried to address some obvious and unobvious practices of schools concerning migrant children, such as the myth of the language barrier as a main obstacle to learning, the lack of basic knowledge about countries of origin, the ignorance of multiculturalism as well as the phenomenon of individual treatment in both types of schools. In the recommendations, I give suggestions on how to perceive a migrant child as a strong and influential personality and how schools could conform to liquid migrations.

Keywords

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MIGRANT CHILDREN; EDUCATION; PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS; POLAND

• Publisher: Wydział Studiów Międzynarodowych i Politycznych Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego oraz Polska Akademia Umiejętności
• Journal: Studia Migracyjne - Przegląd Polonijny
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 40
• Issue: 3(153)
• Pages: 243-258

Contributors

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Izabela Czerniejewska

• The Centre for Migration Studies, The Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań