Educating Refugee-background Students : : Critical Issues and Dynamic Contexts / / ed. by Shawna Shapiro, Raichle Farrelly, Mary Jane Curry.

This collection of empirical work offers an in-depth exploration of key issues in the education of adolescents and adults with refugee backgrounds residing in North America, Australia and Europe. These studies foreground student goals, experiences and voices, and reflect a high degree of awareness o...

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Place / Publishing House:Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:New Perspectives on Language and Education
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
List of Tables --
List of Figures --
Acknowledgments --
Contributors --
Introduction --
Part 1: Language and Literacy --
1. Recently Resettled Refugee Students Learning English in US High Schools: The Impact of Students' Educational Backgrounds --
2. 'History Should Come First': Perspectives of Somali-born, Refugee-background Male Youth on Writing in and out of School --
3. Translanguaging Pedagogy to Support the Language Learning of Older Nepali-Bhutanese Adults --
4. Girls with Refugee Backgrounds Creating Digital Landscapes of Knowing --
5. Sociocultural Literacy Practices of a Sudanese Mother and Son in Canada --
6. Narratives of Trauma and Self-healing Processes in a Literacy Program for Adolescent Refugee Newcomers --
7. The Role of English as a Foreign Language in Educating Refugees in Norway --
Part 2: Access and Equity --
8. Bridges and Barriers: Karen Refugee-background Students' Transition to High School in Australia --
9. Educating Refugees through 'Citizenship Classes and Tests': Integration by Coercion or Autonomous Agency? --
10. Using Photovoice with Cambodian and Guatemalan Youth to Uncover Community Cultural Wealth and Influence Policy Change --
11. Swedish Teachers' Understandings of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder among Adult Refugee-background Learners --
12. Education of Refugee-background Youth in Germany: Systemic Barriers to Equitable Participation in the Vocational Education System --
13. Iraqi Refugee-background Adolescents' Experiences in Schools: Using the Ecological Theory of Development to Understand Discrimination --
14. Besides a Degree, What Do Refugee-background Students Gain from College? --
15. Conception Versus Reality: The Impact of Migration Experiences on Children's Educational Participation --
16. Afterword --
Index
Summary:This collection of empirical work offers an in-depth exploration of key issues in the education of adolescents and adults with refugee backgrounds residing in North America, Australia and Europe. These studies foreground student goals, experiences and voices, and reflect a high degree of awareness of the assets that refugee-background students bring to schools and broader society. Chapters are clustered according to the two themes of Language and Literacy, and Access and Equity. Each chapter includes a discussion of context, researcher positionality and implications for educators, policy-makers and scholars.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781783099986
9783110604252
9783110603255
9783110604016
9783110603231
9783110606782
DOI:10.21832/9781783099986
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Shawna Shapiro, Raichle Farrelly, Mary Jane Curry.