International Handbook of Migration, Minorities and Education: Understanding Cultural and Social Differences in Processes of Learning

742 Pages·2011·10.807 MB·English

by  Zvi Bekerman, Thomas Geisen

International Handbook of Migration, Minorities
and Education
Zvi Bekerman • Thomas Geisen
Editors
International Handbook
of Migration, Minorities
and Education
Understanding Cultural and Social
Differences in Processes of Learning
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Editors
Dr. Zvi Bekerman Dr. Thomas Geisen
School of`Education, Melton Center School of Social Work
Hebrew University University of Applied Sciences
91905 Jerusalem Northwestern Switzerland
Israel Riggenbachstrasse 16
[email protected] 4600 Olten
Switzerland
[email protected]
ISBN 978-94-007-1465-6 e-ISBN 978-94-007-1466-3
DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-1466-3
Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York
Library of Congress Control Number: 2011937702
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Contents
1   Migration, Minorities, and Learning—Understanding 
Cultural and Social Differences in Education ......................................... 1
Thomas Geisen and Zvi Bekerman
Part I  Culture, Difference and Learning
2   Movements and Migratory Processes: Roles and 
Responsibilities of Education and Learning ............................................ 9
Pat Cox
3   Understanding Cultural Differences as Social Limits to 
Learning: Migration Theory, Culture and Young Migrants .................. 19
Thomas Geisen
4   Beyond Limits and Limitations: Reflections on Learning 
Processes in Contexts of Migration and Young People ........................... 35
Pat Cox
5   The Concept of Ethnicity and its Relevance  
for Biographical Learning ......................................................................... 53
Ursula Apitzsch
6  “No Place. Nowhere” for Migrants’ Subjectivity!? ................................. 67
Athanasios Marvakis
7   Learning to Live Together—Towards a New Integration Society ......... 85
Esteban Piñeiro and Jane Haller
8   Opportunities of Managing Diversity 
in Local Educational Programs ................................................................ 101
Andreas Thiesen
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 9   Family Child-Raising and Educational Strategies Among 
European Mixed Couples ........................................................................ 117
Sofia Gaspar
10  Opening a Gate to Citizenship: Media for Migrants ............................ 135
Esther Schely-Newman
11   Living in Different Worlds and Learning All About It: 
Migration Narratives in Perspective ...................................................... 153
Joanne Cassar
12  Early Childhood Education in Multilingual Settings ........................... 169
Drorit Lengyel
Part II  Education in Multilingual Societies
13   Migration, Minorities, and Learning: Understanding 
Cultural and Social Differences in Education ....................................... 189
M. Lynn Aylward
14   The State, Official-Language Education, and Minorities: 
Estonian-Language Instruction for Estonia’s Russian-
Speakers and the Võro ............................................................................. 195
Kara D. Brown
15   The Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit Conversation: The Language 
and Culture of Schooling in the Nunavut Territory of Canada ........... 213
M. Lynn Aylward
16   Ambivalence: Minority Parents Positioning  
When Facing School Choices .................................................................. 231
Zvi Bekerman and Moshe Tatar
17   Social Change and Minority Education: A Sociological  
and Social Historical View on Minority Education in Croatia ............ 249
Jadranka Čačić-Kumpes
18  Reimagining Home in Alberta’s Francophone Communities .............. 265
Laura A. Thompson
19   New School, New System: The Experiences of Immigrant 
Students in Irish Schools ......................................................................... 283
Merike Darmody, Emer Smyth, Delma Byrne and Frances McGinnity
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20   Beyond Cultural Differences: Understanding and 
Negotiating the Conflict Between Chinese Immigrant 
Parents and Canadian Teachers ............................................................. 301
Yan Guo and Bernard Mohan
Part III  Heterogeneity and Learning in Schools
21   Introduction: Heterogeneity, Belonging  
and Learning in Schools .......................................................................... 321
Irina Schmitt
22   Dealing with Diversity and Social Heterogeneity: 
Ambivalences, Challenges and Pitfalls for Pedagogical Activity ......... 331
Christine Riegel
23   A Learning Curve: The Education of Immigrants  
in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Bremen from the 1960s to the 1980s ..... 349
Sarah E. Hackett
24   School Policies, Gender-Sex-Sexuality and Ethnocultural 
Re-production in Sweden, Canada, and Germany ............................... 365
Irina Schmitt
25   Effects of the Head Start Program in the USA as Indicators 
of Ethnic Inequalities ............................................................................... 383
Claudia Koehler
26   Project-Based Learning to Enhance Recognition and 
Acceptance of Cultural Diversity in the Elementary School ............... 403
Christos Govaris and Stavroula Kaldi
27   School Performance of Children of Indian and Cape 
Verdean Immigrants in Basic Schooling in Portugal ............................ 419
Teresa Seabra
28   Migration, Educational Policies, and Practices: 
Constructing Difference in Buenos Aires and in Madrid ..................... 435
Ana Bravo-Moreno and Jason Beech
Part IV  Higher Education
29  Introduction: Higher Education ............................................................. 455
Marisol Clark-Ibáñez
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30   Encountering An-Other: The Culture of Curriculum  
and Inclusive Pedagogies ......................................................................... 461
Ruth Arber
31   Possible Selves and Goal Orientations of East-African 
Undergraduate Students in the United States ....................................... 479
Joash M. Wambua and Cecil Robinson
32   A Passport to Education: Undocumented Latino University 
Students Navigating Their Invisible Status ........................................... 497
Marisol Clark-Ibáñez, Fredi Garcia-Alverdín and Gricelda Alva
Part V  Religion and Learning
33  Introduction Part 5: Religion and Learning ......................................... 517
Eoin Daly
34   Integration by Other Means: Hindu Schooling  
in the Netherlands .................................................................................... 523
Michael S. Merry and Geert Driessen
35   Negotiating the School Curriculum for the  
Malay Muslims in Singapore .................................................................. 543
Charlene Tan and Salleh Hairon
36   Precarious Religious Liberties in Education: The Salience 
of Demographic and Social Contingencies  
Under a Formally Pluralist Public Philosophy ..................................... 559
Eoin Daly
37  Educational Processes and Ethnicity Among Hindu Migrants ............ 577
Helena Sant’ana
Part VI  Community, Work and Learning .................................................. 595
38  Community, Work and Learning ........................................................... 597
Georgina Tsolidis
39   Multiculturalism in a Deeply Divided Society: 
The Case of Cyprus .................................................................................. 605
Michalinos Zembylas
40   Learning Who They “Really” Are: From Stigmatization  
to Opportunities to Learn in Greek Romani Education ...................... 623
William New and Michael S. Merry
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41  Learning Difference in the Diaspora—Sharing Sacred Spaces ........... 641
Georgina Tsolidis
42   Deciphering Somali Immigrant Adolescents’ Navigation 
and Interpretation of Resources Embedded in  
Social Relationships ................................................................................. 659
Moosung Lee and Na’im Madyun
43   Agency and Everyday Knowledge of Filipina Migrants  
in Dubai, United Arab Emirates ............................................................. 677
Simone Christ
44   Ethnicized Youth Subcultures and “Informal Learning”  
in Transitions to Work ............................................................................. 695
Vitor Sérgio Ferreira and Axel Pohl
45   “I Am Illiterate. But I Am a Doctor of Capoeira”: 
Integration of Marginalized Youth in Brazil ......................................... 711
Karin E. Sauer
46   Learning Insularity: Social Capital, Social Learning  
and Staying at Home Among European Youth...................................... 729
David Cairns and Katarzyna Growiec
47  Concluding Remarks ............................................................................... 743
Zvi Bekerman and Thomas Geisen
Index .................................................................................................................. 747
Contributors
Gricelda Alva Department of Sociology, California State University, 333 S. Twin
Oaks Valley Road, San Marcos, CA, 92096 USA
Ursula Apitzsch FB 03 Gesellschaftswissenschaften, J.W. Goethe-Universität
Frankfurt, Robert-Mayer-Straße 5, 60054 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
e-mail: [email protected]
Ruth Arber Faculty of Arts and Education, School of Education, 221 Burwood
Highway, Burwood 3121, VIC, Australia
e-mail: [email protected]
M.  Lynn  Aylward School of Education, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada
e-mail: [email protected]
Zvi Bekerman School of Education, Melton Center, Hebrew University, 91905
Jerusalem, Israel
e-mail: [email protected]
Jason Beech Escuela de Educación, Universidad de San Andrés, Vito Dumas 284,
Victoria, Argentina
e-mail: [email protected]
Ana  Bravo-Moreno Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad de
Granada, Campus de Cartuja, 18071 Granada, Spain
e-mail: [email protected]
Kara D. Brown College of Education, University of South Carolina, Wardlaw
Hall 136, Columbia, SC 29208, USA
e-mail: [email protected]
Delma Byrne The Economic and Social Research Institute, Whitaker Square,
Dublin 2, Ireland
e-mail: [email protected]
Jadranka Čačić-Kumpes Department of Sociology, University of Zadar, Zadar,
Croatia
e-mail: [email protected]
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David  Cairns Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology, ISCTE-Lisbon
University Institute, Edifício ISCTE, Av. das Forças Armadas, 1649-026 Lisboa,
Portugal
e-mail: [email protected]
Joanne Cassar Department of Youth and Community Studies, University of
Malta, Msida, Malta
e-mail: [email protected]
Simone Christ Institute of Oriental and Asian Studies, Department of Southeast
Asian Studies, University of Bonn, Nassestr. 2, 53113 Bonn, Germany
e-mail: [email protected]
Marisol Clark-Ibáñez, Ph.D. Department of Sociology, California State University
San Marcos, 333 S. Twin Oaks Valley Road, San Marcos, CA 92096, USA
e-mail: [email protected]
Pat Cox School of Social Work, University of Central Lancashire, Lancashire,
PR1 2HE, UK
e-mail: [email protected]
Eoin Daly School of Law and Government, Dublin City University, Glasnevin,
Dublin 9, Ireland
e-mail: [email protected]
Merike Darmody The Economic and Social Research Institute, Whitaker Square,
Dublin 2, Ireland
e-mail: [email protected]
Geert Driessen ITS—Institute for Applied Social Sciences, Radboud University
Nijmegen, PO Box 9048, 6500 KJ Nijmegen, The Netherlands
e-mail: [email protected]
Vitor Sérgio  Ferreira, Ph.D. Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Lisboa, Portugal
e-mail: [email protected]
Fredi García-Alverdín Department of Sociology, California State University, 333
S. Twin Oaks Valley Road, San Marcos, CA 92096, USA
e-mail: [email protected]
Sofia Gaspar CIES-ISCTE-IUL, Ed. ISCTE, Av. das Forças Armadas, 1649-026,
Lisbon, Portugal
e-mail: [email protected]
Thomas  Geisen School of Social Work, University of Applied Sciences,
Northwestern Switzerland, Riggenbachstrasse 16, 4600 Olten, Switzerland
e-mail: [email protected]
Christos  Govaris Department of Primary Education, School of Humanities,
University of Thessaly, Argonafton & Filellinon, 38221 Volos, Greece
e-mail: [email protected]