Global Migration and Education: Schools, Children, and Families

by Adams; Leah D.

• ISBN13: 9780805858372
• ISBN10: 0805858377
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-11-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Global Migration and Educationmakes 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 ofproblemscreated 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction : global migration and the education of children	p. 1
Bringing multicultural education into the mainstream : developing schools for minority and majority students	p. 17
Acculturation and educational achievement of children with an immigrant background in German primary schools	p. 35
Inclusion in schools in Latin America and the Caribbean : the case of children of Haitian descent in the Dominican Republic	p. 53
Nutritional challenges among immigrant children and youth in Norway	p. 67
Teachers', children's and parents' perspectives on newly arrived children's adjustment to elementary school	p. 87
The role of home and school in the socialization of immigrant children in Israel : fathers' views	p. 103
A challenge of transnational migration : young children start school	p. 121
Listening to children : voices of newly arrived immigrants from the Chinese mainland to Hong Kong	p. 139
Immigrant children's understandings of nonverbal peer interactions through the development of visual narratives	p. 151
Talking television across cultures : negotiating inclusion and exclusion	p. 169
Moving childhoods : young children's lived experiences of being between languages and cultures	p. 185
Transnational displacement of children : an Australian perspective	p. 203
Exploring the needs of refugee children in our schools	p. 219
Crossing cultural borders in the United States : a case study of a Sudanese refugee family's experiences with urban schooling	p. 237
Refugee families with preschool children : adjustment to life in Canada	p. 251
The experiences of third-culture children	p. 267
Children in transition : learning to become global citizens	p. 279
The social adaptation and skills of migrant children attending primary school in Turkey	p. 293
Community-based education for children of migrant peasant workers	p. 307
Lessons learned and implications for the future	p. 321
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