A Field Research in the District of Bages Concerning School Satisfaction of Immigrant Students in the System of Education Applied in Catalonia

Abstract

The Autonomous Community of Catalonia, which is the most populated region in Spain, is highly popular with immigrants owing to various reasons. The increasingly expanding community of immigrants has not only led to an increase in the number of students from different ethnical backgrounds in Catalonia but also greatly expanded the number of native countries and also the cultural and linguistic diversification of students. The Catalonian Government has implemented a number of plans meant to ensure adaptation of immigrant children to schools. The aim of this study is to examine the principal policies put into practice in the Autonomous Community of Catalonia in order to ensure the school satisfaction of the immigrant students and to investigate whether the targeted school satisfaction is realized or not. In addition to literature reviews and statistics, the data of this research is based on the data collected by the survey technique within the scope of qualitative method. It is possible to say that school satisfaction is high in the light of the evaluations of immigrant parents who participated in the study. While some problems have been solved by the policies implemented in consequences of the regulations on establishment of the structural framework of the integration by giving place to the integration and policy plans by Catalonia, studies are still in progress regarding some other issues. There is a need to invest in this area with a number of educational policy priorities for the functioning of schools and the functioning of the education system as a whole, which will lead to an increase in the integration of immigrant students into the school and improvements in this field.