PROBLEMATICS OF THE EMIGRANTS' ACCOMMODATION IN A NEW EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT. COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN THE PERSPECTIVE OF TEACHERS AND THE PERSPECTIVE OF PUPILS.

BELGIUM; ITALY; SPAIN

The present study focuses on a comparative analysis between the perspective of teachers and the perspective of pupils' regarding the problematics of the emigrants' accommodation in a new educational context. The sample included a total of 102 Romanian migrant pupils, 40 male and 62 female pupils, between the age of 11 and 18, and 72 teachers within the Romanian Language Institute within the Ministry of National Education, teachers teaching the course on "Romanian language, culture and civilization" to migrant pupils in Italy, Spain, and Belgium. The pupils' adjustment was investigated by means of a questionnaire consisting of four subscales: linguistic adaptation, cultural adaptation, school adjustment and teacher-pupil relationship. The same questionnaire was applied both to the pupils and teachers. The findings confirm that, while Romanian migrant pupils have a satisfactory level of educational and linguistic adjustment, the social adjustment is less satisfactory. We also obtained a correlation between linguistic adaptation and school adjustment, linguistic adaptation and social adaptation, linguistic adaptation and teacher-student relationship, school adjustment and social adaptation, school adjustment and teacher-student relationship, social adaptation and teacher-student relationship. This comparative analysis was realized as a result of a larger research in which the empirical studies are interrelated. The first one investigates the adaptation of Romanian migrant pupils to the school abroad, through the teachers in the respective schools. The second study researches several dimensions of the Pupils' effective, real, situational adaption to a new educational context. This research resulted in a corpus of useful knowledge, most of which confirm the validity of the initial hypotheses and may become a supporting material for all the players involved in the proposed issue - pupils, their parents, teachers, and the school in the host-country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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