Education and Immigration: the importance of the teaching of Sociology for immigrants

• Autor(a) principal: Tonhati, Tânia
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Estudos e Pesquisas sobre as Américas
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/repam/article/view/24298
• topic: Migração internacional, ensino da Sociologia, crianças e adolescentes.; International Migration, sociology teaching, children students; Migración internacional, enseñanza de la sociología, niños y adolescentes.

This paper approaches in a reflective way the relationship between migration and education. It aims to make a call for more studies on the importance of teaching sociology in schools with immigrant students. The number of immigrants in Brazil has increased in the last two decades. Consequently, it has also increased the number of immigrant children and adolescents into the basic educational system. Therefore, it is necessary to think how sociology with its conceptual, pedagogical and methodological instruments can be a locus for the immigrant and non-migrant students to understand better the particularities of migratory processes, their motivations and consequences. In addition, it is important to think about how the discipline of sociology can contribute to the processes of socio-cultural integration and socialization of immigrant students in their new cultural context. In addition, it is necessary to understand further about how sociology can collaborate for the schools to value the differences and cultural peculiarities of the immigrants.