1st Edition

Educational Reception in Rotterdam and Barcelona Policies, Practices and Gaps

By Maria Bruquetas Callejo Copyright 2014
312 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge

The reception of newcomer youngsters by schools constitutes a policy issue in Europe already for decades. This book deals with how practitioners in Rotterdam and Barcelona apply existing policies for the reception of immigrant students, the dilemmas they face and the strategies they design as a response. Using a combination of discursive, organizational, and ethnographic research techniques, the... Read more
1. The puzzle 2. Framing the study of practices of educational reception 3. The institutional context of reception practices 4. Practices in Rotterdam 5. Practices in Barcelona 6. Explaining gaps: Rotterdam vs. Barcelona 7. Fields, embedded agency and collective practices, Bibliographic references.

Biography

MarĂ­a Bruquetas Callejo is research fellow at the department of Political Science of the University of Amsterdam and at the Institute of Migration and Ethnic Studies.