Curriculum and cultural diversity

a study of school disciplines and teachers' discourses in educational establishments with students of migrant origin

Abstract

The aim of the doctoral research was to unveil the understandings of cultural diversity in the ministerial curricular guidelines and in the voices of Language and Communication/Language and Literature and History, Geography and Social Sciences teachers, who work in municipal schools that concentrate the enrolment of students of foreign origin in the commune of Chillán (Ñuble, Chile). The qualitative design was organised in three phases (documentary research, teachers' discourses and intra-phase and inter-phase convergences and divergences). The results are presented organised by the respective phases, whose findings respond to the process of emerging categories and their functioning in relation to their corresponding analytical subcategories. The conclusions arrive at the ambivalent meaning of cultural diversity in the curriculum documents and the teachers' discourses reveal the consideration of the cultural aspects of migrant students in the implementation of the curriculum, through pedagogical decisions at the level of the emerging curriculum.