Immigrant youth who excel : globalization's uncelebrated heroes

The book has two parts. Through a series of four interconnected studies, the first focuses on the youths' perceptions. We, meaning the reader and I, accompany them on their way into the new school, in chapter 1, and listen to evaluations of their academic and social experiences. In chapter 2, w...

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Main Author Eisikovitis, Rivka A. (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : IAP, [2008]
SeriesInternational perspectives on educational policy, research, and practice.
Subjects
Teenage immigrants > Education (Secondary) > Israel.
Teenage immigrants > Israel > Social conditions.
Education > Schools > Levels > Secondary.
Educational strategies and policy.
Secondary schools.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806618996
DOI10.1108/978-1-60752-883-8
Physical Description1 online resource (188 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Youths speak
  • Chapter 1. "my expectations from school?.. Here's a list!" the high school compared and assessed
  • Chapter 2. "it is obvious that girls have an easier time:" gender and adaption style
  • Chapter 3. "democracy is more fun:" voting in a new political culture
  • Chapter 4. "there (in the service) you will have to become a Part of things:" acculturation in and through the military
  • Part II. (do) we listen
  • Chapter 5. "they do excel, the trouble is they come in as Russian and leave as russians four years later:" teaching high-achieving transnationalists
  • Chapter 6. "the question is where to place the ulpan class:" diverging approaches to the education of immigrants
  • Chapter 7. An anthropological answer: The teacher-as-ethnographer model. a programmatic epilogue
  • References
  • About the author.

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