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The Ability to Deal With Difference: Turkish‐Dutch Professionals as Go‐Betweens in the Education Sector
Author(s) -
Waldring Ismintha,
Crul Maurice,
Ghorashi Halleh
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
new directions for child and adolescent development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.628
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1534-8687
pISSN - 1520-3247
DOI - 10.1002/cad.20242
Subject(s) - turkish , position (finance) , homogeneous , psychology , pedagogy , political science , sociology , public relations , business , philosophy , linguistics , physics , finance , thermodynamics
Based on sixteen semi‐structured interviews, this article examines how second‐generation Turkish‐Dutch education professionals experience their professional position in the ethnically homogeneous upper echelons of the Dutch education sector. The analysis shows that second‐generation education professionals, being newcomers to higher‐level positions in the sector, have to engage with diverse cultural repertoires at work. Instead of being stuck in‐between these repertoires, second‐generation education professionals actively “go‐between” repertoires, employing their ability to deal with difference. In the increasingly super‐diverse Dutch classrooms, this “go‐between” attitude functions as a second‐generation advantage and is conceptually better suited than in‐betweenness to describe the position of second‐generation professionals.