As a matter of fact, schools receiving more than 30% of students with foreign background are widely diffused in the North of Italy. These situations have to be analyzed through a new approach of research, if possible neutral and not too much alerted about the risk of segregated schools or classrooms on the basis of ethnical composition. An updated survey, carried out in Lombardy with the sustain of Regione Lombardia’s Obstervatory Orim, has scrutinized a probabilistic sample of 1040 teenagers in lower-secondary schools, attending classrooms with an average of 40% of foreign background’s pupils. The system of peer relations and the student/teacher relation are the topics explored, in order to verify if (and at which extent) teenagers live the multi-ethnicity as a problem and what are the main distinctions or inequality fragmentations among them. It raises a frame more positive than what expected, which is characterized by sense of satisfaction, well-being and reciprocity, both among native and immigrants. Only the 17% out of the subsample of pupils with foreign background (2nd generation immigrants) and the 23% out of the foreign students (1st generation immigrants) have been involved in racism provocations by their classmates vs. the 10% of the natives. Moreover, both 1st and 2nd gen. evaluate the multi-ethnicity in the classroom and the treatment received by teachers, better than the natives, because they feel well helped and supported by the school staff. Among Italian students there is in average an under-evaluation of the professional behavior of teachers – given a certain sense of relative privation - and a short minority (10%) feels the multi-ethnicity in the classrooms as negative fact.

La presenza di concentrazioni di alunni di origine immigrata nelle scuole medie superiori al 30% è una realtà diffusa in tutto il Nord Italia, che va studiata con un approccio il più possibile neutrale rispetto ad interpretazioni forzatamente negative e possibili allarmi sociali per il formarsi di scuole o classi “segregate”. Un’indagine svolta di recente in Lombardia, promossa dall’Osservatorio Orim, ha intervistato 1040 studenti di scuola secondaria di I grado, iscritti in classi con una media del 40% di utenza straniera. E’ stato esplorato il tema delle relazioni tra pari e con gli insegnanti, per verificare se e in che misura i teenager vivono la multietnicità come un problema e quali sono le principali distinzioni e disuguaglianze tra italiani e stranieri. Ne emerge un quadro più positivo di quanto atteso, che privilegia il senso di soddisfazione, di benessere e reciprocità, indipendentemente dall’appartenenza etnica. Ha subito prepotenza e razzismo solo il 17% degli stranieri di seconda generazione e il 23% di quelli nati all’estero. Sono soprattutto gli stranieri a valutare in modo positivo la multietnicità in classe e il modo in cui vengono trattati dagli insegnanti poiché si sentono aiutati ed ascoltati dagli operatori scolastici. Tra gli italiani si riscontra un giudizio lievemente più negativo verso i docenti, causato in parte dal sentimento di privazione relativa, e per una minoranza (10%) la percezione della multietnicità come fatto negativo.

Colombo, M., Relazioni scolastiche nelle classi ad elevata concentrazione di alunni di origine immigrata. Riflessioni da un’indagine in Lombardia, <<MONDI MIGRANTI>>, 2012; 2012 (2): 143-162 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/23321]

Relazioni scolastiche nelle classi ad elevata concentrazione di alunni di origine immigrata. Riflessioni da un’indagine in Lombardia

Colombo, Maddalena
2012

Abstract

As a matter of fact, schools receiving more than 30% of students with foreign background are widely diffused in the North of Italy. These situations have to be analyzed through a new approach of research, if possible neutral and not too much alerted about the risk of segregated schools or classrooms on the basis of ethnical composition. An updated survey, carried out in Lombardy with the sustain of Regione Lombardia’s Obstervatory Orim, has scrutinized a probabilistic sample of 1040 teenagers in lower-secondary schools, attending classrooms with an average of 40% of foreign background’s pupils. The system of peer relations and the student/teacher relation are the topics explored, in order to verify if (and at which extent) teenagers live the multi-ethnicity as a problem and what are the main distinctions or inequality fragmentations among them. It raises a frame more positive than what expected, which is characterized by sense of satisfaction, well-being and reciprocity, both among native and immigrants. Only the 17% out of the subsample of pupils with foreign background (2nd generation immigrants) and the 23% out of the foreign students (1st generation immigrants) have been involved in racism provocations by their classmates vs. the 10% of the natives. Moreover, both 1st and 2nd gen. evaluate the multi-ethnicity in the classroom and the treatment received by teachers, better than the natives, because they feel well helped and supported by the school staff. Among Italian students there is in average an under-evaluation of the professional behavior of teachers – given a certain sense of relative privation - and a short minority (10%) feels the multi-ethnicity in the classrooms as negative fact.
2012
Italiano
Colombo, M., Relazioni scolastiche nelle classi ad elevata concentrazione di alunni di origine immigrata. Riflessioni da un’indagine in Lombardia, <<MONDI MIGRANTI>>, 2012; 2012 (2): 143-162 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/23321]
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