Teaching that Matters for Migrant Students: Understanding Levers of Integration in Scotland, Finland and Sweden

学校系统如何应对移民对移民融入社会有着巨大的影响。学校可以成为社会融合和流动的工具，并培养对当地社区的归属感。但学校也可能是一个孤立和歧视的地方，成为融合的障碍。在学校内部，教师是创造学习和参与机会的关键，对移民学生来说尤其如此。然而，教师也可能由于制度结构中嵌入的假设或他们自己未经检验的信念而无意中加强了障碍。我们的项目解决了理解和帮助教师满足流动学生需求的迫切需要。它在苏格兰、芬兰和瑞典的六所学校使用社会网络分析和人种学研究，研究教师如何与学生、他们的家庭、学校同事、专家和外部机构互动，以解决排斥、成绩不佳或其他形式的边缘化风险。对教师在三个学期内日常互动的结构和性质进行全面的混合方法分析，将有助于我们了解他们如何建立包容性的学校社区，这对于建立“保护网络”以解决流动学生的学习障碍至关重要。跨国设计使我们能够评估促进移民跨背景融合的特定政策和战略的影响。TEAMS涉及来自爱丁堡大学、斯德哥尔摩大学、Jyväskylä大学和图尔库大学的四个团队之间的跨学科合作，并从一开始就邀请学校工作人员和移民学生共同设计将在项目期间和以后使用的材料。产出包括：四篇论文和一期学术期刊特刊；项目网站;一部短片和六个学校展览，通过他们自己的手工艺品，如照片和视频，展示农民工学生的经历；三份政策简报，每个国家一份；以及每个参与学校的社交网络可视化。这些产出将在有研究参与者参加的讲习班上提出，并通过我们的国际网络向学术和非学术用户广泛传播。

How school systems respond to migration has an enormous impact on migrant integration. Schools can be a vehicle for social integration and mobility, and for developing a sense of belonging to the local community. But schools can also be an isolating and discriminatory place and act as a barrier to integration. Within schools, teachers are key for creating opportunities for learning and participation, especially for migrant students. However, teachers may also inadvertently reinforce the barriers due to the assumptions embedded in the institutional structures, or their own unexamined beliefs. Our project addresses the urgent need to understand and help teachers meet the needs of migrant students. It employs social network analysis and ethnographic research across six school sites in Scotland, Finland and Sweden to examine how teachers interact with students, their families, school colleagues, specialists and external agencies to address risks of exclusion, underachievement or other forms of marginalisation. A comprehensive, mixed-method analysis of both the structures and nature of teachers’ day-to-day interactions over three school terms will help us understand how they build inclusive school communities, which are critical for building ‘protective networks’ to address barriers to learning for migrant students. The cross-country design allows us to gauge the impact of particular policies and strategies that facilitate migrant integration across contexts.TEAMS involves interdisciplinary collaboration between four teams from the Universities of Edinburgh, Stockholm, Jyväskylä and Turku, and engages school staff and migrant students from the outset to co-design material that will be used both during and beyond the project. The outputs include: four articles and one special issue in academic journals; project website; one short film and six school exhibitions that show migrant students’ experiences through their own artefacts such as photos and videos; three policy briefs, one for each country; and visualisations of social networks in each participating school. These outputs will be presented in workshops with research participants and disseminated widely through our international networks to academic and non-academic users.