Global migration and education
Subtitle: school, children, and families
By: edited by Leah D. Adams, Anna Kirova.
Contributors: Adams, Leah.; Kirova, Anna.
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Mahway, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9780805858372; 9780805858389
Subjects: Children of immigrants -- Education.; Home and school.; Multicultural education.; Emigration and immigration.
Description: "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. 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : global migration and the education of children / Leah D. Adams and Anna Kirova; title: Bringing multicultural education into the mainstream : developing schools for minority and mojority students / Christian Horst and Anne Holmen; title: Acculturation and educational achievement of children with an immigrant background in German primary schools / Leonie Herwartz-Emden and Dieter Küffner, Julia Landgraf; title: Inclusion in schools in Latin America and the Caribbean : the case of children of Haitian descent in the Dominican Republic / Rosa Blanco and Yuki Takemoto; title: Nutritional challenges among immigrant children and youth in Norway / Bernadette Kumar and Margareta Wandel; title: Teachers', children's and parents' perspectives on newly arrived children's adjustment to elementary school / Leah D. Adams and Krista M. Shambleau; title: The role of home and school in the socialization of immigrant children in Israel : fathers' views / Dorit Roer-Strier and Roni Strier; title: A challenge of transnational migration : young children start school / Eva L. Vidali and Leah D. Adams; title: Listening to children : voices of newly arrived immigrant children from Mainland China into Hong Kong / Nirmala Rao and Mantak Yuen; title: Immigrant children's understandings of nonverbal peer interactions through the development of visual narratives / Anna Kirova and Michael Emme; title: Talking television across cultures : negotiating inclusion and exclusion / Liesbeth de Block; title: Moving childhoods : young children's lived experiences of being between languages and cultures / Anna Kirova; title: Transnational displacement of children : an Australian perspective / Ann Farrell; title: Exploring the needs of refugee children in our schools / Judit Szente and James Hoot; title: Crossing cultural borders in the United States : a case study of a Sudanese refugee family's experiences with urban schooling / Guofang Li; title: Refugee families with preschool children : adjustment to life in Canada / Darcey M. Dachyshyn; title: The experiences of third-culture children / Majory Ebbeck, and Valerie Reus; title: Children in transition : learning to become global citizens / Hilary Fabian and Cari Roberts; title: The social adaptation and skills of migrant children attending primary school in Turkey / Esra Ömeroǧlu and Adalet Kandir, Leah D. Adams; title: Community-based education for children of migrant peasant workers / Zhang Yan and Wei-Xiao Bing; title: Lessons learned and implications for the future / Anna Kirova and Leah D. Adams.