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oapen-20.500.12657-875542024-03-28T14:03:14Z Più del necessario Segatto, Barbara Young people, Education, University, Immigrants, Migratory background, Academic success thema EDItEUR::Y Children’s, Teenage and Educational::YX Children’s / Teenage: Personal and social topics::YXZ Children’s / Teenage: Social issues / topics::YXZG Children’s / Teenage social topics: Environment, sustainability and green issues thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNM Higher education, tertiary education The growing number of children and adolescents with a migrant background in Italy has radically changed the composition of the country’s primary and secondary school populations. However, only recently have some of these students have begun entering university. This lag can be explained by the fact that a history of migration brings with it multiple economic, social and educational disadvantages and weaknesses. The book More than is required. Tales of university students with a migrant background is a collection of biographies of young people who, having exceeded society’s common expectations —and therefore having done “more than is required"—have achieved exceptional scholastic results, leading them to wish to continue their studies at university. Their stories of family and school, relationships with peers, and their ambitions, successes and struggles reveal the critical challenges they face, and offer some ways current educational policies can be improved. 2024-02-06T15:44:58Z 2024-02-06T15:44:58Z 2023 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/87554 ita application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9788835158424.pdf https://www.francoangeli.it/Home.aspx FrancoAngeli e2ddfb5e-9202-4851-8afe-1e09b020b018 202 Milan open access
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The growing number of children and adolescents with a migrant background in Italy has radically changed the composition of the country’s primary and secondary school populations. However, only recently have some of these students have begun entering university. This lag can be explained by the fact that a history of migration brings with it multiple economic, social and educational disadvantages and weaknesses. The book More than is required. Tales of university students with a migrant background is a collection of biographies of young people who, having exceeded society’s common expectations —and therefore having done “more than is required"—have achieved exceptional scholastic results, leading them to wish to continue their studies at university. Their stories of family and school, relationships with peers, and their ambitions, successes and struggles reveal the critical challenges they face, and offer some ways current educational policies can be improved.
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