Successful trajectories in foreign students from Compulsory to Post-Compulsory Secondary Education: a longitudinal study from the network approach.
We want to determine to what extent the personal and social networks (composition, structure and functionality) of immigrant students can give power (constitute a promoter / protector factor) of their academic trajectories affecting their persistence and school success.
Methodology
A longitudinal study is carried out that introduces a new level of understanding of both the successful trajectories and the vulnerability of students of foreign origin in the academic transitions of the Secondary Stage.
The study develops a dynamic conceptual model on the dimensions and processes associated with the trajectories of persistence and academic success of students of foreign origin. Based on the model, lines of action are proposed for the centers, proposals for curricular innovation, suggestions for teacher training and joint actions for the school-community. Discussion groups and interviews are carried out with the teachers of the centers to validate, contrast and enrich the curricular and institutional lines of action that derive from the proposed model.
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Publicly owned schools
Educational centers of two or more lines and with the possibility of continuing both in the studies of Baccalaureate and of diverse Formative Cycles in the same center.
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years covering three academic years
In accordance with the objectives of the project, and taking into account the complexity of the phenomenon being addressed, a longitudinal case study has been considered, as it constitutes a comprehensive, systematic and in-depth investigation process of the trajectories of transition of immigrant students to Secondary education.
Case study is a method that is characterized by being contextual, descriptive and heuristic, such that the case itself is important for what it reveals about the phenomenon studied. For this research, the most relevant methodological strategy is considered since the particular case is analyzed to gain greater understanding of a topic or to refine a theory. Networking approaches constitute the theoretical-conceptual and methodological view from which students’ school dropouts and the emergence of successful trajectories are explored. The attributive vision of the analyzed phenomena is combined with a relational vision of the same on the contributions of the ARS (analysis of social networks). The sociocentric approach is used in the study of global class groups, which allows to discover and contrast the patterns of interaction and connection of immigrant students with and in relation to other peers (in the school environment and social) and the egocentric approach to exploring the system of relationships, structure, composition, and functionality of each student’s personal bonds.
In terms of information gathering techniques, the instruments (questionnaires, scales, etc.) are complemented with strategies such as document analysis or discussion groups and individual interviews that allow a more personal, detailed and experiential approach. to the perceptions and experiences of students and teachers. The analysis and in-depth review of the specific literature that supports the hypothesis of our study allows us to specify the instruments and aspects of analysis that are now anticipated.
Transfer of knowledge to professionals who work directly with adolescents and other professionals in the field:
· Elaboration of institutional and psycho-pedagogical actions that configure programs to optimize the transition of immigrant students in the formative stage of Secondary Education.
· Generation of a Repository of “Good Practices”that is developed in the centers based on the results obtained and that allows to share with the scientific and professional community the advances made (resilient centers, creation of learning / practice communities, school link -community, networking of professionals, academic guidance programs, etc.)
· Training of professionals in the educational and social field.Development of plans and strategies for ongoing teacher training, advice, working groups, networking, etc.
· From the results obtained in the descriptive-exploratory stage, initiate research-action processes with the schools involved, or others, as a methodology par excellence for educational innovation.
We consider that this is an original contribution, due to the lack of studies in this regard, while relevant in our society that requires policies and actions aimed at promoting the permanence of students in secondary education for subsequent promotion to the university.
Conclusions
In this study, we have been able to grasp the set of all the relationships that we perceive as significant: family, colleagues, friends, acquaintances and people who are accessed through participation in organizations, associations or other activities.
It has given us the opportunity to identify the formation of groups, the structure of the network, the positions of others and some of their attributes, as well as the perception that young people have of their relationships according to the various natures of the quality of the established link – academic, emotional, instrumental support, influence in studies, etc.
Research must advance, first, in the study of all the networks of young people in the sample; secondly, in the identification of typologies or profiles and, finally, in the monitoring of the evolution of the networks and their possible restructuring throughout the post-compulsory education.
Lead researcher
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Albert2020-01-14 12:29:052022-10-31 15:49:39M. Paz Sandín Esteban
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Albert2020-01-13 12:30:482022-06-07 12:28:59Marta Sabariego Puig
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