Ethnographic approach to the process of inclusion of immigrant students in an educational centre
Abstract
Based on the theoretical assumptions of cultural psychology and language socialization, and following an ethnographic approach, this paper offers (a) a study that explains the schooling process of two students who have just arrived in Spain and a Dominican student who has just arrived in the class group but not at the school and (b) a theoretical framework as a dynamic way of analyzing educational institutions and through which we have identified vertical practices and horizontal practices. This study is an analysis of students' social behavior, understanding it as a dynamic process in which one's actions are the result of the interaction between context and individual behavior, highlighting the agency and transformative power of an individual within a community.
Keywords
Cultural practices, Language socialization, Ethnography, SchoolReferences
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