There is no difference, we are all the same. Migrant children, their schoolmates and teachers in Czech primary schools

Autor	Mgr. Lucie Jarkovská, Ph.D., Kateřina Lišková, Ph.D., Mgr. Jana Obrovská
Organisation	Masarykova univerzita, Fakulta sociálních studií
Year	2014
Research type	study
Annotation	This article presents findings from research that was focused on children of foreigners in Czech schools. The research was conducted as an ethnographic study at several elementary schools. It zooms to how they perceive the growing ethnic diversity in Czech schools and teachers how to cope with her own children coming to the Czech Republic from other countries. It was the individual and group interviews with teachers and pupils and observation carried out during ethnographic research in ethnically diverse classrooms in selected schools. Teachers ethnicity of students is considered not important in their teaching practice, or in the process of integration of migrants into the pupil's class. Pupils themselves migrants reduce their ethnic differences using different strategies, which show their own normality. Trying to extricate themselves from hurtful and exclusionary "differences". It seems that children of Czech and foreign children, together with teachers working to make the grade in Czech school appeared to be ethnically homogeneous and essentially consistent and seamless.
Keywords	ethnicity , ethnography, education, migrant pupils
Research type	comparative research
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Obor	AC Anthropology, archeology, ethnology , AM Pedagogy, education, AO Sociology, demography
Email	jarkovsk@fss.muni.cz
Availability	available in the NRVDM electronic library
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Organisation	Masarykova univerzita, Fakulta sociálních studií
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