Global Migration and Education

"Global Migration and Education" makes a notable contribution to understanding the issues faced by immigrant children, their parents, and educators as they interact in school settings, and to identifying the common challenges to, and successes in, educational institutions worldwide as they cope with these issues. It will help educators and others involved in these complex processes to see beyond the notion of problems created and experienced by recently arrived young children. Rather, this volume provides many concrete suggestions deriving from the success stories and voices of teachers, parents, and students. It also offers evidence that diversity can be a condition for learning that, when understood, embraced, and supported, leads to rich learning opportunities for all involved that would not exist without diversity. All of the authors offer recommendations about educational policy and practices to address and ultimately improve the education of all children, including immigrant children. The book is organized around five themes: Multiple Global Issues for Immigrant Children and the Schools They Attend; They Are Here: Newcomers in the Schools; Views and Voices of Immigrant Children; Far from Home With Fluctuating Hopes; and Searching for New Ways to Belong. Intended for researchers, students, school professionals, and educational policymakers and analysts around the world in the fields of multicultural education, child psychology, comparative and international education, educational foundations, educational policy, and cross-cultural studies, this book is highly relevant as a text for courses in these areas.

ISBN 0805858385   Pages 368 ISBN13 9780805858389 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc   Weight (grammes) 493 Imprint Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc   Published in NJ Format Paperback   Height (mm) 229 Publication date 27 Dec 2006   Width (mm) 152 Library of Congress 2006008679   Spine width (mm) 19 DEWEY 371.826912   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22   Alternative ISBN 9781410614865

1		Introduction : global migration and the education of children by Leah D. Adams and Anna Kirova		1
2		Bringing multicultural education into the mainstream : developing schools for minority and majority students by Christian Horst and Anne Holmen		17
3		Acculturation and educational achievement of children with an immigrant background in German primary schools by Leonie Herwartz-Emden and Dieter Kuffner and Julia Landgraf		35
4		Inclusion in schools in Latin America and the Caribbean : the case of children of Haitian descent in the Dominican Republic by Rosa Blanco and Yuki Takemoto		53
5		Nutritional challenges among immigrant children and youth in Norway by Bernadette Kumar and Margareta Wandel		67
6		Teachers', children's and parents' perspectives on newly arrived children's adjustment to elementary school by Leah D. Adams and Krista M. Shambleau		87
7		The role of home and school in the socialization of immigrant children in Israel : fathers' views by Dorit Roer-Strier and Roni Strier		103
8		A challenge of transnational migration : young children start school by Eva L. Vidali and Leah D. Adams		121
9		Listening to children : voices of newly arrived immigrants from the Chinese mainland to Hong Kong by Nirmala Rao and Mantak Yuen		139
10		Immigrant children's understandings of nonverbal peer interactions through the development of visual narratives by Anna Kirova and Michael Emme		151
11		Talking television across cultures : negotiating inclusion and exclusion by Liesbeth de Block		169
12		Moving childhoods : young children's lived experiences of being between languages and cultures by Anna Kirova		185
13		Transnational displacement of children : an Australian perspective by Ann Farrell		203
14		Exploring the needs of refugee children in our schools by Judit Szente and James Hoot		219
15		Crossing cultural borders in the United States : a case study of a Sudanese refugee family's experiences with urban schooling by Guofang Li		237
16		Refugee families with preschool children : adjustment to life in Canada by Darcey M. Dachyshyn		251
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