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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. Reviews: In these pages, socially aware academics have integrated educational and social issues, attending consciously to refugees as whole people. The editors and authors understand how the educational concerns of refugees are inseparable from their political, geographic, cultural and psychological contexts, and are to be commended for producing this worthwhile volume. - James Simpson, University of Leeds, UK This volume offers a wealth of information about what crossing (language) borders means for students with a refugee background. It demonstrates the opportunities modern t

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Author

Shawna Shapiro; Raichle Farrelly; Mary Jane Curry

Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781783099962

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Education