Overview
- Fills a gap in scholarship on cross-cultural experiences of Arab immigrant youth in Canada
- Provides a diverse study sample including participants from Somalia, Syria, Iraq, and Jordan to discuss their experiences as students in transition
- Updates and expands upon decades-old research on the under-studied Arabic-speaking community in Ontario
- Includes first-hand personal accounts from immigrant youth, including in-depth interviews and testimony
Part of the book series: Intercultural Reciprocal Learning in Chinese and Western Education (IRLCWE)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book presents Arab immigrant youths’ voices through storytelling that reveals the challenges and achievements they experience at school and at home in a Canadian educational context. While Arab immigration to Canada dates back to the late eighteenth century, Canada has witnessed a significant rise in Arab immigration rates over the last twenty-five years, marking the fastest growth among all immigrant groups.These stories highlight the complexity of Arab-Canadian youths’ cross-cultural schooling experiences and provide valuable opportunities for reciprocal learning among all stakeholders in Canadian schools. With an educator’s vision, Elkord foregrounds the tensions between Arab youths’ home and school experiences to help build bridges and make high school less opaque to Arab immigrant students and their parents, while offering insights into multicultural education and resources for teacher education.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Nesreen Elkord is Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Windsor and Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada. She is also a member of the Windsor Essex Local Immigration Partnership and co-chair of its Newcomer Youth Planning Committee.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cross-Cultural Schooling Experiences of Arab Newcomer Students
Book Subtitle: A Journey in Transition Between the East and the West
Authors: Nesreen Elkord
Series Title: Intercultural Reciprocal Learning in Chinese and Western Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14420-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-14419-7Published: 16 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-14422-7Published: 16 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-14420-3Published: 26 July 2019
Series ISSN: 2946-417X
Series E-ISSN: 2946-4188
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 151
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: International and Comparative Education, Sociology of Education, Curriculum Studies, Migration, Asian Culture