Atención educativa al alumnado inmigrante: en busca del consenso

Abstract

This research paper analyzes the educative attention of an immigrant student in our country through the analysis of the subjective opinions from several experts in this research area. Firstly, this research paper will be focused in the main problems presented by this thematic, secondly it will show our approach showing inclusive actions for all students; we call it Delphi method. Delphi method was the tool used during the data gathering consisted in two surveys. In this research were involve more than 100 experts from three groups: administrative staff, teaching staff and students. Second survey was built using open questions, and later, an analysis of the answers was performed. This second tool inquired the educative attention improvement proposals of the students with the aim of guaranteeing real equality of opportunity and access to the same educational achievements as their partners. The main conclusion reached in this research work is the misunderstanding between theory and practice that supports educational actions to support immigrant students. Several proposals was presented in this research paper in order to improve the educational attentions of this group related to the improvement of their processes of schooling, the creation of educational actions for their academic trajectories improvements, a greater presence of the native language and the use of new methodologies. It is necessary to rethink the learning of the working language from the contributions of the bilingual programs.