This research aims to study the integration between national and foreign students in schools with a significant presence of foreign students. The analysis focuses on the relationship both in school and out of school among students and between their families. The analysis measures both the capital of the students in primary school that the share capital of the families. The fields of study are both the school context that family relationships.The social network analysis allows us to grasp the essential elements and the form of social relations. They were used two different questionnaires one for students and one for the families in order to measure social capital school and the family and their connection.The reference sample covers 34 classes of primary schools in the Italian prov-ince of Trento, where foreign students are at least 25%. Students who were involved in the survey were 618, 210 of whom were foreigners. As for integration not noticed significant differences be-tween Italian students and foreign students. The low integration is not exclusively linked to the na-tionality of pupil. The significant difference is found in family relationships: Italian families have many interfaces with other class families of their children, particularly with the families of students Italians; foreign families have little or no relation to the other families of the class of their child. In addition, it is noted that there is a relationship between the increased popularity of the child in the classroom and the social capital of the same class
School and Integration in Multi Ethnic Classes: School and Family Relations
MONTEDURO, GIUSEPPE
2015
Abstract
This research aims to study the integration between national and foreign students in schools with a significant presence of foreign students. The analysis focuses on the relationship both in school and out of school among students and between their families. The analysis measures both the capital of the students in primary school that the share capital of the families. The fields of study are both the school context that family relationships.The social network analysis allows us to grasp the essential elements and the form of social relations. They were used two different questionnaires one for students and one for the families in order to measure social capital school and the family and their connection.The reference sample covers 34 classes of primary schools in the Italian prov-ince of Trento, where foreign students are at least 25%. Students who were involved in the survey were 618, 210 of whom were foreigners. As for integration not noticed significant differences be-tween Italian students and foreign students. The low integration is not exclusively linked to the na-tionality of pupil. The significant difference is found in family relationships: Italian families have many interfaces with other class families of their children, particularly with the families of students Italians; foreign families have little or no relation to the other families of the class of their child. In addition, it is noted that there is a relationship between the increased popularity of the child in the classroom and the social capital of the same classI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
