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    Global migration and education : schools, children, and families / edited by Leah D. Adams, Anna Kirova.

    • Title:Global migration and education : schools, children, and families / edited by Leah D. Adams, Anna Kirova.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Adams, Leah.
      Kirova, Anna.
    • Published/Created:Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007, ©2006.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Children of immigrants--Education.
      Home and school.
      Multicultural education.
      Emigration and immigration.
    • Description:xvii, 349 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
    • ISBN:0805858377 (cloth : alk. paper)
      0805858385 (pbk. : alk. paper)
      9780805858389
    • Contents:1. Introduction : global migration and the education of children / Leah D. Adams and Anna Kirova
      2. Bringing multicultural education into the mainstream : developing schools for minority and majority students / Christian Horst and Anne Holmen
      3. Acculturation and educational achievement of children with an immigrant background in German primary schools / Leonie Herwartz-Emden, Dieter Kuffner and Julia Landgraf
      4. Inclusion in schools in Latin America and the Caribbean : the case of children of Haitian descent in the Dominican Republic / Rosa Blanco and Yuki Takemoto
      5. Nutritional challenges among immigrant children and youth in Norway / Bernadette Kumar and Margareta Wandel
      6. Teachers', children's and parents' perspectives on newly arrived children's adjustment to elementary school / Leah D. Adams and Krista M. Shambleau
      7. role of home and school in the socialization of immigrant children in Israel : fathers' views / Dorit Roer-Strier and Roni Strier
      8. challenge of transnational migration : young children start school / Eva L. Vidali and Leah D. Adams
      9. Listening to children : voices of newly arrived immigrants from the Chinese mainland to Hong Kong / Nirmala Rao and Mantak Yuen
      10. Immigrant children's understandings of nonverbal peer interactions through the development of visual narratives / Anna Kirova and Michael Emme
      11. Talking television across cultures : negotiating inclusion and exclusion / Liesbeth de Block
      12. Moving childhoods : young children's lived experiences of being between languages and cultures / Anna Kirova
      13. Transnational displacement of children : an Australian perspective / Ann Farrell
      14. Exploring the needs of refugee children in our schools / Judit Szente and James Hoot
      15. Crossing cultural borders in the United States : a case study of a Sudanese refugee family's experiences with urban schooling / Guofang Li
      16. Refugee families with preschool children : adjustment to life in Canada / Darcey M. Dachyshyn
      17. experiences of third-culture children / Marjory Ebbeck and Valerie Reus
      18. Children in transition : learning to become global citizens / Hilary Fabian and Cari Roberts
      19. social adaptation and skills of migrant children attending primary school in Turkey / Esra Omeroglu, Adalet Kandir and Leah D. Adams
      20. Community-based education for children of migrant peasant workers / Zhang Yan and Wei-Xiao Bing
      21. Lessons learned and implications for the future / Anna Kirova and Leah D. Adams.
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