Description
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. The studies foreground student goals, experiences and voices, and reflect the assets that refugee-background students bring to schools and society.
Chapter
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 Programfor Adolescent Refugee Newcomers
7 The Role of English as a Foreign Language in Educating Refugees in Norway
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