Refugee and Immigrant Students
Achieving Equity in Education
1st Edition
Published on 1. September 2012
259 pages
978-1-61735-842-5 (ISBN)
Description
The focus of this book is on educational equity issues affecting immigrants and refugees around the world. Chapters highlight educational approaches that build from experiential knowledge, draw upon multiple languages, consider group identity, grapple with the complexities of inclusion, address family concerns, promote parental involvement, involve liaison with community agencies, and view cultural differences as educational strengths. While the book does not shy away from exploring the more challenging aspects of the refugee and immigrant experience, it avoids dwelling on victimology and rejects applying a deficit framework. Rather it offers hope, emphasizing the potential strengths of refugees, including their cultural capital and survival skills. The authors also make cogent suggestions for structural, pedagogical, and conceptual reform, with targets ranging from individual teachers to educational systems to social, economic, political, and cultural contexts.
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Florence E. Mccarthy | Margaret H. Vickers
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Achieving Equity in Education
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Content
- Cover
- Half Title
- Refugee and Immigrant Students
- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword: For My Grandparents
- Introduction: Education for Immigrants and Refugees
- Part I: Pedagogical Initiatives Addressing Issues of Educational Equity for Immigrants and Refugees
- Chapter 1: Positioning Refugee Students as Intellectual Class Members
- Chapter 2: Creating Shared Learning Spaces
- Chapter 3: Refugees as Educators
- Chapter 4: Identity and Inclusion
- Part II: Refugee and Immigrant School-Community Partnerships
- Chapter 5: Still Far to Go
- Chapter 6: Serving the Needs of Refugee Children and Families through a Culturally Appropriate Liaison Service
- Chapter 7: Schools at the Crossroads of Competing Expectations
- Part III: Systemic Issues and Policies for Refugee and Immigrant Educational Equity
- Chapter 8: Australia's New Arrivals Policy and the Need to Reform Refugee Education Provision
- Chapter 9: Equity in Education for Migrant and Refugee Children
- Chapter 10: Post-Primary Education Dilemmas in Protracted Refugee Situations
- Chapter 11: Learning from the Education Programs for Sri Lankan Refugee Students in India
- About the Contributors
