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Schools of Citizenship: Parent Councils at Public Schools in Italy, Spain, and France

Projektbeschreibung

Einwanderereltern und öffentliche Einrichtungen tragen Verantwortung für politische Bildung

In den letzten zehn Jahren hat die Zuwanderung nach Europa zugenommen. Entscheidend für die Integration neuer Bevölkerungsgruppen in die europäische Gesellschaft ist Schulbildung, vor allem im Kontext öffentlicher Schulen. Der Schwerpunkt des EU-finanzierten Projekts PARENT_CITIZENS wird auf der Beteiligung zugewanderter Eltern in der Schule liegen. Das Ziel ist es, die institutionelle Bildung von Elternvertretungen und das partizipative Zusammenspiel von Einwanderereltern in Frankreich, Italien und Spanien – den Ländern mit der höchsten Anzahl von Zugewanderten – zu erforschen. Das Projektteam wird dazu ein aus verschiedenen Methoden bestehendes Rahmenwerk verwenden, um über qualitative Methoden ein konzeptionelles Verständnis zu erarbeiten, mit dem eine repräsentative Erhebung über die teilnehmenden Eltern erstellt werden kann.

Ziel

In the wake of economic, climate, and violent crises throughout the Mediterranean region, Europe has recorded more asylum seekers and immigrants during the past decade than ever before. As these new populations seek to integrate into European society, the following questions arise: are there sufficient institutional sites and resources to civically incorporate these incoming individuals and families? More importantly, what are the appropriate and practically effective institutions to build shared values of tolerance, respect, and citizenship? The purpose of this interdisciplinary project is to investigate the public institution most directly responsible for civic education, public schools, in three of the highest immigrant destination countries in Europe: Italy, Spain, and France. Yet while most European wide civic education initiatives focus on school children, the focus of this study is parent participation on parent councils (assemblee genitori, asociación de padres, conseil des parents d'élèves) at schools. In many nation states throughout Europe, parents have the right and expectation to participate at schools through legally codified parent councils, yet they remain little understood as a vehicle for productive civic integration. This absence in the scholarly literature and European institutional initiatives is surprising given the established finding that schools are the primary public institution where immigrants interface with others and participate civically. In sum, parent councils at public schools are uniquely situated as a civic educational institution and remain nearly absent from citizenship education initiatives in Europe. In an effort to illuminate the viability of parent councils for civic integration, this study utilizes a mixed-method framework to build a conceptual understanding through qualitative methods in the first phases of research which inform a representative survey of parent members in the final phase of the study.

Koordinator

UNIVERSITA CA' FOSCARI VENEZIA
Netto-EU-Beitrag
€ 183 473,28
Adresse
DORSODURO 3246
30123 Venezia
Italien

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Region
Nord-Est Veneto Venezia
Aktivitätstyp
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Links
Gesamtkosten
€ 183 473,28