Migration and education in a multicultural world
Subtitle: culture, loss, and identity
By: Ursula A. Kelly.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
Subjects: Social change; Emigration and immigration; Education
Description: Arising from the legacies of the twentieth century - unprecedented worldwide migration, unrelenting global conflict and warring, unchecked materialist consumption, and unconscionable environmental degradation - are important questions about the toll of loss such changes exact, individually and collectively. As large-scale and ubiquitous as these changes are, their deep specificity re-inscribes the importance of place as a critical construct. Attending to such specificity emphasizes the interconnections between contexts and broader movements and remains a prudent route to articulating critical interconnections among places and peoples in complex times. This book of essays turns to such specificity as a means to examine the inflections of migration on identity- displacement, disorientation, loss, and difference- as sites of both regression and possibility. Fusing autobiography and cultural analysis, it provides a framework for a critical education attuned to such concerns.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: At sea : towards an educational discourse of loss and place; title: Losing place : reluctant leavings and ambivalent returns; title: "The distance home" : migration, mourning and difference; title: The word, for loss : literacy, longing and belonging; title: Separation, (re)connection and a transformative education of place; title: The place of reparation : loss, ambivalence and teaching; title: "Learning to live with ghosts" : loss, place, and education.