Stručni rad
Yugoslav Children in Viennese Schools
Branka Vegar
; Jugoslavenska dopunska škola, Beč, Austrija
Sažetak
According to an Austrian survey, Yugoslav citizens temporarily residing and working in the province of Vienna belong to the lowest social category. Their children generally attend Volksschule, sometimes they get as far as Hauptschule (higher forms of elementary school), and they are “regulars” in Sonderschule (special schools). Viennese elementary schools' endeavours are directed at the children's integration into the school and the host community, without simultaneously dismissing the idea of their possible future reintegration in their home country. But the young foreigners' assimilation does not seem to be at issue, at least not pronouncedly.
Since our children's attendance at Jugoslawisch-Kurs (the school jargon relating to Yugoslav supplementary education in their mother tongue) is not compulsory, and they seem to find the grammar of their mother tongue – which may happen to be their first second language in actual fact – too complicated anyway, they frequently choose not to attend mother-tongue classes. Hence a dilemma as to whether it would be better to create attractive multimedia programmes of instruction in order to enable young migrants to master their mother tongue while still abroad, or to encourage their return to the homeland for further education.
Ključne riječi
children of migrants; education; integration; Vienna
Hrčak ID:
128770
URI
Datum izdavanja:
31.10.1986.
Posjeta: 1.372 *