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Titre Comment améliorer les structures d'accueil des mineurs étrangers ?
Auteur Silvia Lucchini
Mir@bel Revue Les Politiques sociales
Numéro no 3-4, 2011 Enfants en exil. Exils d'enfance
Page 91-103
Résumé anglais From the time of their arrival on Belgian territory, all those under-eighteens who are here for the first time should be in school. An apprenticeship in the local language to allow students to pursue their schooling represents therefore a major challenge. The facility of a “transitory class” was put in place in 2001. This method of integrating students has had mixed results. On the one hand, grouping students according to their socio-economic and ethnic background is so counter-productive that it has been suggested that the plan should be simply scrapped. Against this view, it appears that the acquisition of linguistic and academic skills takes time, which would argue in favour of actually lengthening the period spent in the transitory class.
In any case a method of diagnosis and prognosis appears absolutely necessary in order to provide guidance and determine the work of these classes, avoiding abuses. Such instruments of diagnosis and prognosis do not yet exist. Some principles for setting them up are sketched out.
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