Social competence as an educational goal: The role of the ethnic composition and the urban environment of the school

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• 作者：Annemieke Zwaans ; Ineke van der Veen ; Monique Volman ; Geert ten Dam
• 关键词：Social competence ; Citizenship
• 刊名：Teaching and Teacher Education
• 出版年：2008
• 出版时间：November 2008
• 年：2008
• 卷：24
• 期：8
• 页码：2118-2131
• 全文大小：255 K

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This article concerns the relationship between social–educational goals and the school context. We used a questionnaire to map the educational goals of teachers in pre-vocational education in the field of social competence, and investigated whether these goals were related to the percentage of students from ethnic-minority groups and to the urban environment of the school. The results show that all teachers, regardless of the school context, value promoting the social development of their students as an educational goal. We did not find a relationship between the context the teachers work in and the social-competence goals they aspire to in their subject. However, teachers working in a more complex school environment, in terms of both the ethnic heterogeneity of the student population and the urban environment of the school, did consider a number of social-competence goals to be less attainable for their students. The results are discussed in the light of research on the competences young people need to participate in a multi-cultural society and the implications for teachers and teaching.