Overview
- Contributes to a better understanding of the cross-cultural and educational experiences of immigrant youth in diaspora
- Builds on an extension of W.E.B. Du Bois's notion of double consciousness
- Provides evidence of how immigrant literature can provoke a negotiation of identity among high school students in Canada
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Educational Futures (PSEF)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book, framed through the notion of double consciousness, brings postcolonial constructs to sociopolitical and pedagogical studies of youth that have yet to find serious traction in education. Significantly, this book contributes to a growing interest among educational and curriculum scholars in engaging the pedagogical role of literature in the theorization of an inclusive curriculum. Therefore, this study not only recognizes the potential of immigrant literature in provoking critical conversation on changes young people undergo in diaspora, but also explores how the curriculum is informed by the diasporic condition itself as demonstrated by this negotiation of foreignness between the student and selected texts.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Wisam Kh. Abdul-Jabbar is Adjunct Professor at the University of Alberta, Canada. He holds a PhD in English Education from the University of Alberta, in addition to three master’s degrees, in English (University of Baghdad, Iraq), Humanities (California State University, USA) and English Literature (Lakehead University, Canada). He did his SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship in the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary, Canada. His primary research interests are in curriculum theory, intercultural education and multicultural literature. His previous articles have appeared in journals by Cambridge University Press, Duke University Press, California University Press and Routledge.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Negotiating Diasporic Identity in Arab-Canadian Students
Book Subtitle: Double Consciousness, Belonging, and Radicalization
Authors: Wisam Kh. Abdul-Jabbar
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Educational Futures
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16283-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-16282-5Published: 23 May 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-16283-2Published: 09 May 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 172
Topics: Sociology of Education, Curriculum Studies, Ethnicity Studies, Diaspora, Religion and Education, Postcolonial/World Literature