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Immigrant families and schools in Barcelona: expectations and realities

This article presents some of the results of the PhD thesis entitled, "Dialogue, family, and school in the context of diversity", done at the Department of Didactics and Educational Organization of the University of Barcelona. The main focus of the research was to analyze the forms of communication between Latin-American families and Catalan schools in order to gain educational support for immigrant minors; to describe, understand and interpret the representations of families and primary school teachers on communication in a context of cultural diversity and the implications of these representations for the construction process of intercultural dialogue. The study of a theme of this nature is relevant within the context of global, national and local policies, due to the challenge of coexistence and intercultural dialogue at a general level, particularly in education.

School; Family; Immigrations; Intercultural Dialogue


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