Exploring the Narratives and Agency of Children with Migrant Backgrounds within Schools: Researching Hybrid Integration [Hardcover]

1. Introduction  2. The conceptual framework  3. The complex position of migrant children in European legislation and education  4. It takes a village to enable participation and integration. Examining the meaning of social relationships from different perspectives  5. Gendered practices at school: the experiences of migrant children and professionals practices and views  6. Participation and hybrid integration in primary and secondary schools  7. Participation and hybrid integration in nursery schools  8. Using second language teaching and learning  9. Language mediation in schools: the case of parent-teacher meetings  10. Conclusions

This edited volume presents the results of a European research project  CHILD-UP (Children Hybrid Integration: Learning Dialogue as a way of Upgrading Policies of Participation), which supports the hybrid integration of children with migration backgrounds into schools across Europe.

Claudio Baraldi is Professor of Sociology of Cultural and Communicative, Department of Studies on Language and Culture, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy.

'This book emerges from a European project focusing on migrant childrens engagement with and integration in a host countrys school system, and the impact this integration has on peers, teachers and parents. The CHILD-UP project highlights the educational agency of children, with a particular focus on relations that migrant children have with peers and teachers. Drawing on survey, interview and video data from nursery, primary and secondary schools in seven European countries, a rich body of data extend and refine key concepts within the fields of childhood and migration studies. Baraldis book is brimming with insights and challenges on the school's monopoly of epistemic authority, the tension between hybrid and monolÓ#