Xue Lan Rong, Judith Preissle

Educating Immigrant Students in the 21st Century

What Educators Need to Know

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The updated edition will offer the most updated, useful, and relevant information on immigration and immigrant students. Rong and Preissle will help educators understand the significance of the demographic data on immigration and what it means to their schools. By analyzing various educational practices and policies, the authors guide educaotrs in finding evidence-based practices and policies that can improve the environment for immigrant studtents.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Corwin
• 2. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 286mm x 221mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 1131g
• ISBN-13: 9781412940948
• ISBN-10: 141294094X
• Artikelnr.: 24668576

Autorenporträt

Xue Lan Rong, a professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, is a first-generation immigrant whose native language is Chinese. As a classroom teacher, teacher educator, and educational sociologist, she has more than 25 years of teaching experience in public schools at various levels in the United States and China. She obtained her research experience via sociological, demographic, and pedagogical training. She has continually published in major sociological and educational journals and presented at national conferences on the topics of generation, race and ethnicity, national origins, gender, social class, and educational attainment and achievement of immigrant children since 1988, when she finished a dissertation on immigration and education at the University of Georgia.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Introduction
1. Immigration and U.S. Schools
2. Immigrant Children, Their Families, and Environment
3. Learning English and Maintaining Heritage Languages
4. Educational Attainment
5. Immigrant Children From Asia
6. Immigrant Children From the Caribbean and Africa
7. Immigrant Children From Latin America
8. Immigrant Children From Middle Eastern Countries
Sources of Information
References
Index