In Italy, as in other European countries, students of foreign origin are over-represented in the vocational school tracks, with relevant consequences on their limited chances of attaining a university degree. While research has long underlined the weight that a family’s social, cultural and economic capital has on a child’s school performance, educational expectations and choices, the role that school and teachers themselves play in the transition from lower to upper secondary school has been rarely explored in Italian sociological research. The present study aims to bridge this gap in the literature, showing how teachers’ orienting practices, interacting with highly differentiated patterns of family participation in the school guidance process, can play a relevant role in reproducing foreign-origin students’ segregation into the lower tracks of the school system.

Teachers’ guidance, family participation and track choice: the educational disadvantage of immigrant students in Italy / P. Bonizzoni, M. Romito, C. Cavallo. - In: BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION. - ISSN 0142-5692. - 37:5(2016 Jul), pp. 702-720.

Teachers’ guidance, family participation and track choice: the educational disadvantage of immigrant students in Italy

P. Bonizzoni
Primo
;
M. Romito
Secondo
;
C. Cavallo
Ultimo
2016

Abstract

In Italy, as in other European countries, students of foreign origin are over-represented in the vocational school tracks, with relevant consequences on their limited chances of attaining a university degree. While research has long underlined the weight that a family’s social, cultural and economic capital has on a child’s school performance, educational expectations and choices, the role that school and teachers themselves play in the transition from lower to upper secondary school has been rarely explored in Italian sociological research. The present study aims to bridge this gap in the literature, showing how teachers’ orienting practices, interacting with highly differentiated patterns of family participation in the school guidance process, can play a relevant role in reproducing foreign-origin students’ segregation into the lower tracks of the school system.
family participation at school; immigrant children; school choice; school guidance; tracking
Settore SPS/07 - Sociologia Generale
Settore SPS/08 - Sociologia dei Processi Culturali e Comunicativi
Settore SPS/10 - Sociologia dell'Ambiente e del Territorio
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