Depending on the increasing in conflict and poverty across the World, both regular and irregular migration flow is a very topical and an ongoing issue in Europe. The direction of the migration flow is from Africa and Middle east to Europe. The immigrants use Turkey as a transition country first and they try to reach Europe on sea even perilous ways. In this risky migration way, Italy comes one of the critical country which is desired to be reached by immigrants. Every year several immigrants arrived in Italy and some of them move to the other European countries. Depending on the economical and political status Germany is the most preffered country in the imigration flow. Therefore these three countries Therefore these three countries are considered as a sample group for immigrant students' integration problem. According to the UNHCR half of the immigrants are under 18 years old. In spite of the policy makers and presidents effort, these children have difficulties in integration to host country depending on language problems, cultural differences, lack of a systematical adaptation programs and social exclusion. The integration problem of immigrant children is one of the most important issue in Europe, because if they are not integrated well enough to host country, they can be engaged in disruptive behaviors such as crime, violent or terrorist attacks in future. At this point schools play a key role in the immigrants’ integration issue. This Project is a descriptive and qualitative study. In this project, it is aiming to reveal the effective and ineffective practices of schools for an inclusive school setting. Italy, Germany and Turkey are sample countries for immigrant students' integration problem with their immigrant students population, migration experiences and school based practices. The partners from these countries will search the current school practices and determine which are useful for immigrant students' integration process. For this aim each partner will select project schools in which immigrant students being educating with native students. Data will be collected via observations and individual interviews. In this scope, teacher, native students and immigrant students will be observed in course and schoolyard in terms of teachers's course management skills in a multicultural classrom, and students 'course engagement and peer relations. Then individual interviews will be conducted with teachers, immigrant students and native students to reveal the school practices and experiences in the viewpoint of teahcers, native students and immigrant students. Data will be analysed with SWOT analysing method. SWOT Analysis is a discussion technique for determination of the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and the Threats of instutitions. By means of SWOT analysis participants discuss the unfunctional sides of the school practices and determine the effective ones. Successful strategies about integration of immigrant students will be find out in this atmosphere. As a result, general profiles about school practices in immigrant students’ integration process will be created and effective practices among them will be revealed. Depending on the results of SWOT Analysis, project partners will find out the the effective school practices for the inclusive school settings. The effective school practices of sampler countries will collected in a booklet under three sub themes as "the materials", "the physical environments" and "the teacher skills in multicultural classroom management". At the end of this project this booklet will be disseminated to the schools, policy makers and stakeholders. With this study more systematical and common school practices can be accessible for schools to enhance the immigrant students' integration process. Moreover, this project will provide a scientific results about inclusive school practices to policy makers for standardization process of school settings.
This project idea arise from the migration flow which is still a hot point for all over the world depending on the poverty, wars or other disadvantageous status for people. In this project, social adaptation of immigrant students in secondary school was selected as a main research problem. As it is, this project was a research project and it was designed to search the school experiences of immigrant and non-immigrant students in the same school environment. With this focusing point, this project was aimed to contribute on the inclusive education with the booklet which was aimed to create as a result of this project. To realize this main aim interviews made in Turkey, Germany and Italy with immigrant and non-immigrant students and their teachers. Three schools from Turkey, one school from Italy and one school from Germany was participated to the interview section of the project. Students from Turkey consists of 11 children, six of whom were immigrant and five were non-immigrant students at three different schools. Three immigrants and three non-immigrant students, from a school partner of the project from Germany constitute 6 participants. Students from Italy were 11 children, five of whom were immigrant and six of whom were non-immigrant students at a secondary school. Thus, student interviews were carried out with total 28 students, half of whom were immigrant and half of whom were non-immigrant from three countries. Additionally teacher interviews was consisted of 11 teachers from Turkey, 12 teacher from Italy and 5 teacher from Germany. The context of the interviews and the questionnaires were clarified in the first transnational meeting in Turkey and until the second transnational meeting all partner institutions conducted those interviews in their countries. Then all interviews was transcribed by the partners in English and they were carried to the second transnational meeting by partners. In second transnational meeting in Italy, those transcribes were discussed and the participants were informed about inductive analysis method by partners from Anadolu University. Afterly, transcribes was analysed, themes and sub-themes were clarified and a swot analyses were applied. Finally swot project was completed with a closing meeting which was hosted by German partner. This closing meeting was planed to be held in Frankfurt but depending on the covid 19 virus pandemia it was made in zoom. As it is aimed at the project application time, a booklet was created depending on the results of the SWOT analyzing in this project. This booklet includes the results of our project research and effective school practices which were observed in project schools or stated in the interviews by students or teachers. This booklet can be useful for all teachers, researchers or policy makers those of whom wants to make contribution on inclusive education and immigrant students social adaptation process. Additionally the data collection toolkit was generated and all those materials is presented on eu project results platform. Moreover the presentations about project process and minutes of the meetings are shared on eu results platform.