Immigrant Families and the School in Spain: Dynamics and Factors that Influence their Relations

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Garreta i Bochaca, Jordi;
Llevot Calvet, Núria;
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(2011)
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Immigrant Families and the School in Spain: Dynamics and Factors that Influence their Relations.
Educational, Cultural and Psychological Studies, 2011, núm. 4, p. 47-67.
http://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/47004.
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In Spain, academic debate and school administrations have evolved to the extent that relations between the school, the family and the surrounding environment are now considered as crucial to student achievement at school and to the good functioning of the educational system as a whole. Despite this development, change is slow in practice and often complicated due to the emerging resistance of families and schools, given that they have always maintained relations marked by an imbalance of power. Our theoretical and especially our empirical work has focused on the relations between immigrant families and the school system in Spain. In view of the above, the creation of what we call positive relational dynamics and communication in schools is conditioned by the attitudes and behaviour of the school administration, professionals and families. However, the physical space in which these relations take place must also be taken into consideration. Regarding school organisation, we have emphasised the role of the school’s administration. By differentiating the range of management models, we note the ones that facilitate more relations and communication with and among families (especially the one we have called the horizontal participative model) and those that discourage them. However, the multiple and complex range of attitudes among teachers and families must always be taken into account.
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