"Children at Our School Are Integrated. No One Sticks out": Greek-Cypriot Teachers' Perceptions of Integration of Immigrant Children in Cyprus

Autor/in	Theodorou, Eleni
Titel	"Children at Our School Are Integrated. No One Sticks out": Greek-Cypriot Teachers' Perceptions of Integration of Immigrant Children in Cyprus
Quelle	In: International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 24 (2011) 4, S.501-520 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0951-8398
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Social Isolation; Educational Environment; Social Scientists; Immigrants; Racial Bias; Teacher Attitudes; Elementary School Teachers; Social Attitudes; Racial Discrimination; Ethnography; Cyprus + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Soziale Isolation; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Social scientist; Sozialwissenschaftler; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Lehrerverhalten; Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Racial bias; Ethnografie; Zypern
Abstract	Increasingly social scientists, including education theorists, find themselves having to fight an almost invisible racism that is masked by the racist undertones of the dominant discourse and practice of colorblindness. A continuous emphasis on colorblindness gives precedence to the role of race, diverting attention away from other forms of discrimination which can become the basis for exclusion. I would argue that for such acts of marginalization, difference-blindness may have more explanatory power. This paper discusses Greek-Cypriot teachers' perceptions of the integration of immigrant children in a Greek-Cypriot public primary school through the framework of difference-blindness. The discussion shows that despite their good intentions, teachers utilized a difference-blind ideology to rationalize practices of social exclusion of non-Cypriot students in what was considered an "integrated" school environment. (Contains 11 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10