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<p>The article deals with increasing cross-border education, namely students from Slovenia attending upper-secondary level minority schools in Austrian Carinthia. We conducted interviews with school management and focus groups with students, who also completed a short questionnaire. Based on qualitative and quantitative data, we drew conclusions about the motives of students from Slovenia for enrolment in Slovene minority schools in Austria and about the consequences of their decision – their well-being, their knowledge and use of languages, their plans for the future – as well as in relation to their sense of Europeanness and their varying identities. Cross-border schooling turns out to be a success story. The outcome seems to be particularly favourable for the Slovene minority in Austrian Carinthia as it maintains the scope and quality of minority education, while also having the positive consequence of giving the members of the Slovene minority much greater exposure to the Slovene language, especially spoken language, with which they otherwise have less direct contact.</p>
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The article deals with increasing cross-border education, namely students from Slovenia attending upper-secondary level minority schools in Austrian Carinthia. We conducted interviews with school management and focus groups with students, who also completed a short questionnaire. Based on qualitative and quantitative data, we drew conclusions about the motives of students from Slovenia for enrolment in Slovene minority schools in Austria and about the consequences of their decision – their well-being, their knowledge and use of languages, their plans for the future – as well as in relation to their sense of Europeanness and their varying identities. Cross-border schooling turns out to be a success story. The outcome seems to be particularly favourable for the Slovene minority in Austrian Carinthia as it maintains the scope and quality of minority education, while also having the positive consequence of giving the members of the Slovene minority much greater exposure to the Slovene language, especially spoken language, with which they otherwise have less direct contact.

Cross-Border Education: Students from Slovenia in Austrian Minority Schools

Treatises and Documents, Journal of Ethnic Studies / Razprave in Gradivo, Revija za narodnostna vprašanja

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Čezmejno izobraževanje: dijaki iz Slovenije na avstrijskih manjšinskih šolah

The article deals with increasing cross-border education, namely students from Slovenia attending upper-secondary level minority schools in Austrian Carinthia....

Cross-Border Education: Students from Slovenia in Austrian Minority Schools

Published Online: Dec 21, 2023

Page range: 91 - 114

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/tdjes-2023-0016

Keywords
cross-border education, minority education, students from Slovenia in Austria, recording the consequences, linguistic consequences

© 2023 Sabina Zorčič et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Cross-Border Education: Students from Slovenia in Austrian Minority Schools

Published Online: Dec 21, 2023

Page range: 91 - 114

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/tdjes-2023-0016

Keywordscross-border education, minority education, students from Slovenia in Austria, recording the consequences, linguistic consequences

© 2023 Sabina Zorčič et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
cross-border education, minority education, students from Slovenia in Austria, recording the consequences, linguistic consequences