In studies on education and children with migrant background, discrimination on the basis of race and ethnic origin assumes a central role: it constitutes a strong obstacle to integration and affects schooling processes. How does the racial and ethnic difference mark the students' school experience? The experience of discrimination at school therefore uncovers important limits to social justice in education. Teachers and other actors not only have specific representations of social justice, but also contribute to its production and dissemination in the school environment. How can they counteract relations of subordination and discrimination and deliberately and consciously contextualise their educational practice within prevailing patterns of social injustice? In this presentation we intend to discuss this issue by reflecting on the teachers and other school agent’s narratives of ethnic and racial diversity in the school environment. For this purpose, we examine a set of 41 interviews conducted in two schools in the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon.

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Education,Discrimination,Diversity,Race and Ethnicity,Social Justice

• Sociology - Social Sciences