Full Description
Youth in Education explores the multiple, interrelated social contexts that young people inhabit and navigate, and how educational institutions cope with increasing ethnic, cultural and ideological diversity. Schools, families and communities represent important settings in which young people must make successful transitions to adulthood, and the classroom often becomes a battleground in which these contexts and values interact.
With contributions from the UK, Belgium, Germany and Canada, the chapters in this book explore rich examples from Europe and North America to suggest strategies that can help to counter negative perceptions, processes of stigmatization and disengagement, instead prioritising peer support and cooperative learning to give pupils a renewed sense of worth.
This book takes the growing ethno-cultural diversity in education systems to heart and studies the various related educational processes from a multidisciplinary and multi-method approach. It aims to offer more insight into underlying mechanisms that are often implicit, but can be important factors that positively or negatively influence educational trajectories and outcomes. It is essential reading for researchers, academics and postgraduate students in the fields of education, sociology, higher education, policy and politics, and social and cultural geography.
Contents
PREFACE
Introduction
Noel Clycq & Christiane Timmerman
Section 1 - Values, Relationships and Institutions in a Context of Diversity
Chapter 1 The Influence of Socio-economic Change and Culture on Intergenerational Relations
Gisela Trommsdorff
Chapter 2 Horizontal Transmission of Value Orientations in Adolescence
Klaus Boehnke and David Schiefer
Chapter 3 Educational Structures and the Curriculum: Reproducing or Transforming Ethnic Boundaries?
Marie Mc Andrew
Section 2 - Educational Pathways
Chapter 4 Does Congruence between the School and the Home/community Environment Make a Difference?
Christiane Timmerman, Noel Clycq, Kenneth Hemmerechts & Johan Wets
Chapter 5 The Quebec Youth of Immigrant Origin in Secondary Education: Educational Pathways and the Factors Influencing Graduation
Jacques Ledent & Marie McAndrew
Chapter 6 Culture, Narratives and Upward Educational Mobility
Nicolas Legewie
Section 3 - Peers, Family and Community
Chapter 7 Parents and Schools and Diversity: Challenges and Opportunities for Parental Involvement in a Changing, Global Context
Gill Crozier
Chapter 8 Aspirations Disclosed: The Case of Turkish-Belgian Parents in Brussels
Fatma Zehra Çolak
Chapter 9 The Polish Community School in Flanders: Bridging the Gap between School and Home Environment
Edith Piqueray, Noel Clycq & Christiane Timmerman
Section 4 - Social, Systemic and School Dynamics
Chapter 10 Aspirations and Stigmatization as Factors of School Success
Noel Clycq, Ward Nouwen & Marjolein Braspenningx
Chapter 11 Partnership between Schools and Immigrant Families and Communities
Geneviève Audet, Marie McAndrew & Michèle Vatz Laaroussi
Chapter 12 Re-Thinking Values and Schooling in White Working-Class Neighbourhoods
Ruth Lupton
Chapter 13 Conclusion - Major Contributions of the Book and the Complementarity of Its Chapters: A Critical Reflection
Alhassane Balde & Marie Mc Andrew
