Inmaculada González Falcón

Universidad de Huelva | UHU · Departamento de Educación

The research highlights the importance of immigrant parents assuming a leading and mediating role in the processes of school adjustment and their children’s educational inclusion. However, the difficulties that parents have to face as a consequence of the migration process are not always taken into account. These families have to face their own acc...

Managing cultural diversity remains a challenge in secondary schools in Spain. In this paper, we approach cultural diversity from the standpoint of school counsellors, who are key professionals attending to immigrant pupils. Through the use of qualitative research techniques (semi-structured interviews and discussion groups), the strengths, weaknes...

The aim of the chapter is to learn how the management team promotes openness to the community and collaboration to develop an inclusive culture. This study is framed within the R+D+I project “School Management Leadership and Its Contribution to Improving Inclusion in Compulsory Education.” In a mixed research approach, the project develops and impl...

Teaching of Spanish to immigrant students as a vehicular language in schools has been underway in Spain since the 1990s. From the outset, this work has been carried out by a new figure: the teacher of the designated “special classrooms for immigrants” or “temporary classrooms for linguistic adaptation”. After 25 years, their role has become institu...

Educational inclusion of foreign pupils has become a priority objective in recent years in many countries worldwide. Attending to the cultural diversity of pupils and providing an inclusive educational response is now a main goal of education systems. In this context, educational leadership is a key factor for school improvement. Management teams f...

Resumen La escuela se vale, para la atención del alumnado de origen extranjero, de distintos dispositivos bienintencionados que definen y miden la diferencia, reconocen su potencial excluyente y pretenden afrontarla mediante diversas políticas interculturales e inclusivas. Este trabajo analiza uno de esos dispositivos: las aulas temporales de adapt...

La investigación realizada tiene por objetivo conocer, analizar y describir el proceso de adaptación de las metodologías didácticas activas ante el cambio de la docencia presencial a la docencia online, las actitudes del profesorado y sus valoraciones en torno a la experiencia vivida durante la pandemia del Covid-2019. La metodología de investigaci...

This article aims to show the role of educational counselors both as promoters of cultural management and as mentors for attention to diversity. A qualitative methodology and ethnographic approach have been implemented. In-depth interviews with counsellors from schools in the provinces of Huelva and Cadiz (Spain) have been analyzed in order to pinp...

The aim of the research is to pinpoint which leadership-related factors affect school success, specifically focusing on features and strategies used by the principals. The work follows the International Successful School Principalship Project methodology in two case studies in Andalusia (Spain). Both schools (with differentiated environments) are c...

The need to explore new forms of leadership in schools, among other available alternatives, leads to the reflection upon the way in which—specifically from the principal’s office—it is developed, implemented and distributed. This paper presents two case studies in Spanish secondary schools in which the practices are analyzed and the limitations rec...

This study examines teachers' beliefs regarding linguistic diversity and their approaches to teaching Spanish as a second language (SSL) in the inclusion of immigrant students whose first language is not Spanish. Grounded in a qualitative study in multicultural schools in Andalusia (Spain), we compared the voices of two groups of teachers: regular...

In Italy, 9.2% of school students come from a migrant family. Of these, 55.3% were born in Italy itself. With the data revealing a situation in which these young, second-generation migrants face educational disadvantages that lead to structural inequality and social injustice, we ask: which adults are supporting them during their education? We pres...

Understanding Cultural Diversity in Education: Perceptions, Opportunities and Challenges is the result of a collective work by different European, American and Asian experts. The aim is to encourage reflection on cultural diversity in the social sciences area and, particularly, in the field of education. To this end, it includes different research...

Este libro se ocupa de interpretar los significados que tiene el que la escuela, en general, y la escuela en Andalucía, en particular, trate de una manera determinada la escolarización de un conjunto de niños y niñas a los que se les vincula con su condición de persona de otro país (aunque a veces son sus padres y sus madres los que proceden de otr...

During the last 20 years, the influx of immigrant pupils in Spanish schools has taken up much of school counsellors’ agendas. This leads us to reflect upon the status and role of educational guidance in terms of cultural diversity management, particularly focusing on two elements that may potentially help understand the situation: relations with ot...

The aim of this article is to examine how school principals perceive cultural diversity and management. To this end, qualitative research was carried out for one semester in four secondary schools in Andalusia (Spain). Through interviews and discussion groups, triangulated with other qualitative research techniques, we explored the mindset and atti...

Este trabajo muestra resultados parciales del Proyecto I+D+I “Construyendo diferencias en la escuela. Estudios de las trayectorias de las Aulas Temporales de Adaptación en Andalucía, de su profesorado y de su alumnado” (CSO2013-43266-R). Se trata de un estudio etnográfico, del que presentamos aquí dos casos de Institutos de Educación Secundaria Obl...

This article includes the assessments made by four counsellors of their work in cultural diversity management in Huelva (Spain). Using interviews and focus groups, together with other qualitative research techniques, we examined the counsellors’ intervention models and the relationships they maintain with other members of the educational community...

En este estudio nos centramos en una investigación llevada a cabo en un centro educativo SemiD de la provincia de Huelva acogido al Plan de Educación Compensatoria por su alto porcentaje de alumnado extranjero, el cual cuenta con la única maestra de ATAL permanente de dicha provincia. Uno de los principales objetivos que nos planteábamos en tal inv...

En las últimas décadas la creciente llegada de población inmigrante en Andalucía y el resto de España ha generado nuevas políticas educativas de escolarización para el alumnado de origen extranjero. En la comunidad andaluza se destaca la creación del “Aula Temporal de Adaptación Lingüística”; dispositivos creados con la finalidad de facilitar la ll...

As international research has shown, the emancipation and integration of the second generation represents the path to a successful multicultural society. Nevertheless, their socio-cultural, economic and political integration is not at all an easy process. As the literature attests, a sense of belonging to their society plays an important role in th...

La investigación que hemos llevado a cabo tenía como objetivo estudiar y evaluar la aplicación del enfoque AICLE combinado con metodologías activas a la impartición de las asignaturas de School Organization y Teaching and Curriculum Development. Para el desarrollo del estudio hemos realizado un estudio de caso del grupo de 3º de Grado de Educación...

In Italy, the presence of immigrant children is constantly increasing. During their school attendance they met significant academic and educational difficulties. This study tried to find some answers in order to support their integration. To consider their points of view could be helpful in order to develop some useful reflections on their experien...

El artículo resume el trabajo realizado durante el transcurso de un proyecto de innovación docente llevado a cabo en la Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación de la Universidad de Huelva y financiado por la XIII Convocatoria de Proyectos Innovación Docente, cuya finalidad fue mejorar las competencias de los estudiantes de Educación Infantil en la org...

El presente trabajo forma parte de una investigación más amplia sobre liderazgo distribuido financiada en la convocatoria 2011 de proyectos nacionales de I+D+I. Los resultados que se presentan corresponden a la tercera fase de la investigación, de carácter etnográfico. Se analizan dos estudios de casos realizados en dos escuelas andaluzas. El objet...

El artículo resume el trabajo realizado durante el transcurso de un proyecto de innovación docente llevado a cabo en la Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación de la Universidad de Huelva y financiado por la XIII Convocatoria de Proyectos Innovación Docente, cuya finalidad fue mejorar las competencias de los estudiantes de Educación Infantil en la org...

This article reflects the results of the evaluation in the educational innovation project called "City of Rainbows", that has been developed at the University of Huelva since the academic year 2002/03.The experience, aims, tools and the process of evaluation followed are briefly described in it, focusing especially on evaluation an proposals for im...

This article reflects the results of the evaluation in the educational innovation project called "City of Rainbows", that has been developed at the University of Huelva since the academic year 2002/03.The experience, aims, tools and the process of evaluation followed are briefly described in it, focusing especially on evaluation an proposals for im...