Expectativas socioeducativas de alumnas inmigrantes: Escuchando sus voces

Abstract

Female immigrants incorporation in our schools has generated the need to build up intercultural spaces, promoting not only cognitive development, but also academic and social-working inclusion. In a broader multi case study's framework, a research of twelve singular stories of socio educational life-understood as personalized narrative constructions-has allowed us to know, thanks to their voices, which elements are significant to them in order to build up their social and educational expectations. Qualitative data analysis of emerging topics have been used to show how they build their future aspirations and describe them through categories. The study seeds how stereotyped teachers beliefs and traditional pedagogy, and also sexist pressure and xenophobic environments, produce educational helplessness and mistrust in those students. On the contrary, the support of mothers, partners and some innovative and committed teachers make the counterpoint, recreating positive expectations about school and labour market in the future.