Composing Storylines of Possibilities: Immigrant and Refugee Families Navigating School

The book invites us to listen to the storylines of international migrant families navigating local schools in their new cultural context, highlighting the importance of carework and school transformation. Each chapter begins with a vignette and specific implications for preservice teachers, practicing teachers, and educational administrators. The families call for school personnel to engage with international migrant families and embrace a risk and resilience model for success.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 254 pages
Publication date: 12 November 2021
Publisher: Information Age Publishing

International migrant families invite us to listen to their mostly muted voices as they navigate local schools in their new cultural context. They call us to hear them as they grapple with issues they encounter and implore us to feel like outsiders and see the school as a foreign culture with language and communication barriers. The book is organized to enhance this carework, with each chapter beginning with a vignette that includes the voices of one or more members of international migrating families and introducing the context of the chapter. At the end of each chapter, readers will find specific implications to consider, constructed with preservice teachers, practicing teachers, and educational administrators in mind. As you read each chapter, there is the call for school transformation, as the families in this book entreat school personnel to engage with international migrant families and embrace a risk and resilience model as we strive together for success. These storylines challenge us to examine our personal storylines for biases and deficit understandings and call us all to purposefully rewrite these in the spirit of possibilities as the families in this book have embodied for us.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781648027154