Voices from the margins : : school experiences of refugee, migrant and indigenous children / / Eva Alerby, Jill Brown.

• VerfasserIn: Alerby, Eva,; Brown, Jill P.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Brown, Jill P.,
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam ;, Taipei : : Sense Publishers,, [2008]; 2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Equitable access to education is fundamental to any concept of social justice offering as it does the means of escape from social and economic marginalisation. Despite this, in too many countries around the world groups of children are systematically denied access to education which will equip them...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material / Eva Alerby and Jill Brown
• Introduction / Eva Alerby and Jill Brown
• What it Means to Become a Stranger / Niclas Månsson
• A boy gives a signal with his hand … need help / Jórunn Elídóttir
• In school you learn to get on in life / Eva Alerby
• To become somebody you have to learn Swedish / Arne Forsman
• Without friends I will be very lonely / Pui Man Jennie Wong
• My first day in class I just understood ‘hello’ / Lloydetta Ursula Quaicoe
• I’m black … apart from that I enjoy school / Zane MaRhea and Bernadette Atkinson
• He is thirsty for knowledge / Jill Brown
• If we had mean-as (great) teachers we’d have a mean-as (great) school / Emily Nelson , Kate Christensen and Mark Cleary
• My teacher will punish that person right away / Trong Tra Son Luu
• Sometimes I go to school hungry / Maryam Jaffar Ismail
• The Author / Eva Alerby and Jill Brown.