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CATEGORIES:Second Language Education Group
SUMMARY:Constructing identities in multilingual classrooms
 : the experiences of immigrant-background children
  in primary schools in France and England  - Dr. O
 akleigh Welply\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20140217T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20140217T183000
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URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/46814
DESCRIPTION:This seminar will explore the impact of national e
 ducational ideologies on the experiences and ident
 ities of immigrant-background children in primary 
 schools in France and England. It will draw on dat
 a from a cross-national ethnographic study\, which
  investigated the identity narratives of 10 and 11
  year old immigrant-background children in primary
  schools in France and England. \n\nBuilding on th
 e dialectic of ideology and utopia in the work of 
 Paul Ricoeur (1986)\, in this talk I will argue th
 at despite strongly contrasting models of integrat
 ion and conceptualisations of difference\, immigra
 nt-background children in both countries viewed fo
 rmal school spaces as strongly monolingual and mon
 ocultural. However\, children’s perceptions diverg
 ed between the French and English schools when it 
 came to peer group relations and informal schools 
 spaces. In the French case\, children operated a r
 eversal of norms in which differences and Othernes
 s were constructed as central to belonging in peer
 -group relations. In contrast\, in the English cas
 e\, children articulated differences and Otherness
  as the basis for separation between peers\, repro
 ducing the more implicit monocultural ideology of 
 the school. These different representations of Oth
 erness in school contributed to the way immigrant-
 background children articulated differences as par
 t of their identities in school. These findings sh
 ow that beyond national ideologies and philosophie
 s of integration\, structural\, cultural and symbo
 lic dimensions need to be explored to understand t
 he role played by public institutions\, such as sc
 hools\, in the integration of immigrant population
 s.\n\n\n*Bio*\n\n*Dr Oakleigh Welply* is a lecture
 r in Sociology of Education at the Faculty of Educ
 ation\, University of Cambridge. She completed her
  PhD at the same institution\, focusing on the exp
 eriences of immigrant-background children in prima
 ry schools in France and England. This work\, whic
 h integrated a focus on language into a sociologic
 al approach\, explored the role of different natio
 nal frameworks in immigrant-background children’s 
 identity construction and the way they negotiated 
 difference and Otherness in school.\n\nShe is curr
 ently involved in a three-year research project wh
 ich investigates school approaches and practices i
 n supporting the education of non-English speaking
  children and young people in the UK.\n
LOCATION: Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge
 \, CB2 8PQ\, Room GS5
CONTACT:Lucian Stephenson
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