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Seeking Success of Migrant Students through Designed Tasks

A Case Study with Albanian Students in Switzerland

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Some groups of minority students are well known for being at risk of school failure. Different trends of research in sociology, psychology and education have explored the processes that affect their school performances and careers. A bias of causal attribution, known in social psychology as “blaming the victim” (Ryan, 1971), is likely to infiltrate these lines of research when researchers take for granted that being unsuccessful is “normal” for these groups and then start to look for causes that can explain this “obvious fact”.

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  1. Institute of Psychology and Education, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

    Teuta Mehmeti

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Mehmeti, T., Perret-Clermont, AN. (2016). Seeking Success of Migrant Students through Designed Tasks. In: Surian, A. (eds) Open Spaces for Interactions and Learning Diversities. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-340-7_10

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