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The (im)possible success of disadvantaged students. Reflections on education, migration and social change
Mariagrazia Santagatisubject
these biographical routes [Mariagrazia The paper focuses on the ?unexpected pathways? of successful students with an immigrant background]relación educación-migración-sociedadmigration and social change Santagatithat seems socially impossibleattending upper secondary education in Northern Italy. The biographical approach allows to deepen the social change that derives from the positive impact of immigration on education. Within this interpretative perspectiveéxito escolar 51 57raise theoretical issues around the individual-societyactor-structure relationship. Disadvantaged students who succeed represent a sociological challenge in the attempt to understand atypical situations and to identify the institutional processes and the structural opportunities that facilitate thembut also giving voice and supports to disadvantaged studentsschool successSettore SPS/08 - SOCIOLOGIA DEI PROCESSI CULTURALI E COMUNICATIVIthat considers possible the educational success of immigrant studentsimmigrant students:SOCIOLOGÍA [UNESCO]students of immigrant originreducing ethnic inequalities in education. This framework is the starting point of the Su.Per. project (Success in educational pathways of students with immigrant background)the article underlines the contribute of the Su.Per. project to a new ?definition of the situation?and introducing them to a field of unforeseen possibilities. education-migration-society relationship1137-7038 8537 Arxius de sociologia 525290 2019 40 7038139 The (im)possible success of disadvantaged students. Reflections on educationdrawing new narratives and discourses on inequalitieseducational successUNESCO::SOCIOLOGÍAMariagrazia The paper focuses on the ?unexpected pathways? of successful students with an immigrant background: these biographical routesbased on the collection of written autobiographies of 65 immigrant studentsalumnos de origen inmigrantedescription
The paper focuses on the ?unexpected pathways? of successful students with an immigrant background: these biographical routes, that seems socially impossible, raise theoretical issues around the individual-society, actor-structure relationship. Disadvantaged students who succeed represent a sociological challenge in the attempt to understand atypical situations and to identify the institutional processes and the structural opportunities that facilitate them, reducing ethnic inequalities in education. This framework is the starting point of the Su.Per. project (Success in educational pathways of students with immigrant background), based on the collection of written autobiographies of 65 immigrant students, attending upper secondary education in Northern Italy. The biographical approach allows to deepen the social change that derives from the positive impact of immigration on education. Within this interpretative perspective, the article underlines the contribute of the Su.Per. project to a new ?definition of the situation?, that considers possible the educational success of immigrant students, drawing new narratives and discourses on inequalities, but also giving voice and supports to disadvantaged students, and introducing them to a field of unforeseen possibilities.
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| 2019-01-01 |