Altunbas, Havva Görkem;
Mulcahy, Marian;
Reiss, Michael J;
(2024)
A framework for investigating immigrant students’ attitudes towards science, exemplified with data from Turkish families.
London Review of Education
, 22
(1)
, Article 14. 10.14324/lre.22.1.14.
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Abstract
In this article, we draw on sociocultural, cognitive and affective perspectives to investigate the factors lying behind immigrant school students’ attitudes and aspirations towards science. We combine Deci and Ryan’s self-determination theory and Bourdieu’s theory of cultural and social capital to produce a new theoretical framework for understanding how these factors operate. One part of our framework focuses on students’ cognitive and affective resources, such as enjoyment, self-efficacy, engagement and intrinsic motivation. Another relates to students’ sociocultural resources, such as gender, class, home language, parental expectations and perceived teacher encouragement, which are filtered through notions of field and students’ immigrant status. We then exemplify this framework by exploring the attitudes towards science of two Turkish immigrant secondary school students in England, as revealed by questionnaires that they completed and interviews with them and their parent(s). Our tentative conclusion is that our theoretical framework, in its combination of a Bourdieusian perspective and Deci and Ryan’s self-determination theory, may help make sense of why some immigrant school students continue with science and others do not.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | A framework for investigating immigrant students’ attitudes towards science, exemplified with data from Turkish families |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.14324/lre.22.1.14 |
Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.14324/lre.22.1.14 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | 2024, Havva Görkem Altunbas, Marian Mulcahy and Michael J. Reiss. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited |
Keywords: | immigrant students; science attitudes; self-determination theory; Bourdieu; capital; Türkiye |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Learning and Leadership |
URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10191777 |
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