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Hajisoteriou, Christina; Karousiou, Christiana; Angelides, Panayiotis – British Educational Research Journal, 2017
This research examines children's conceptualisations of cultural diversity. In particular, this project examines the following two research questions: how do children define and understand the concept of cultural diversity; and what do they perceive as the implications of cultural diversity on their daily lives? To this end, interviews were…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Ethnic Diversity, Interviews, Elementary School Students
Rüschenpöhler, Lilith; Markic, Silvija – Education Sciences, 2019
(1) Background: In self-concept research, Likert scales are still relied upon despite the fact that they pose methodological difficulties for research in culturally diverse societies. This calls the validity of the data into question. In the present study, we develop a mixed methods design for culture-sensitive academic self-concept research. We…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Research, Mixed Methods Research, Secondary School Students
Yahya, Raudhah; Wood, Elizabeth Ann – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2017
This article examines play as a conceptual third space that serves as a bridge between home and school discourses. Using sociocultural theories and an interpretivist framework, 19 immigrant mothers and their children in Canada were interviewed about their play experiences at home and in preschools. The findings reveal that children and teachers…
Descriptors: Play, Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Mothers
Cummings, Katrina P.; Hardin, Belinda J. – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
Cultural beliefs, values, language differences, and unfamiliar educational infrastructures and practices can impact immigrant parents' capacity to support their children with disabilities in their new country. This study presents perspectives of disability and experiences with special education services based on interviews with eight immigrant…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Parent Attitudes, Special Education, Immigrants
Scully, Jennifer E. – TESOL Journal, 2016
Secondary newcomer schools vary tremendously in format but share the common characteristic of being comprised of recently arrived adolescent immigrants. These schools, designed to meet the educational and acculturative needs of adolescent immigrants, have been proliferating across the United States for years. Yet little is known about the…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Adolescents, Interviews, Urban Schools
Arulmani, Gideon – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2019
This paper uses the cultural preparedness approach to analyse the interface between the aspirations of immigrants and their engagement with systems of the host country. It draws upon interviews with 84 immigrants from 35 developing countries living in 9 high-income countries. Based upon Edmund Husserl's hermeneutical phenomenology, two studies are…
Descriptors: Social Integration, Immigrants, Phenomenology, Acculturation
Iordan, Dubravca – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This qualitative study explored English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) Eastern European nursing graduates' socialization to the United States, their development and academic experience as nursing students, and their perspectives as practicing nurses. Through their revealing testimonials, the participants exposed their positive and negative…
Descriptors: Nursing, Nursing Education, Nursing Students, Qualitative Research
Tkacz, Daria; McGhee, Derek – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2016
This article focuses on the parents of secondary school Polish boys and their capacity to realise their educational and professional aspirations for their children. Our primary finding is that although many Polish parents face considerable challenges in manoeuvring through the educational system, some Polish parents display a level of agency…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Parent Attitudes, Academic Aspiration
Dueñas, Gilbert – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2015
Within the everyday space of their modest trailer homes, I observed compelling environments in the households of 5 Mexican families. In their homes, there existed "los padres con sus hijos" (parents with their children) who intuitively expressed "cariño," or love, for one another, conversed in multiple languages, practiced…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Cultural Influences, Cultural Differences, Traditionalism
Nilsson Folke, Jenny – Gender and Education, 2016
What can we learn from and with the body in order to understand more about the (lived) experiences of newly arrived students in schools? This question has hitherto been given little attention in relation to the field of migration and education. Using the perspective of Ahmed's critical feminist phenomenology, this article aims to explore the…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Feminism, Migration, Immigrants
Dusi, Paola; Steinbach, Marilyn – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2016
This study involves 35 research participants: 20 immigrant parents (primarily mothers from South America, North Africa, Eastern Europe and the Middle East) and 15 primary school children, aged 10-11. These children were born outside Italy and primary school was their first encounter with the Italian educational system. We observed their processes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Parents, Elementary School Students
Jhagroo, Jyoti R. – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2016
The stories shared by the immigrant teachers capture some of their personal and professional lived experiences in their new teaching environment. The hermeneutic narrative approach of the study of seven immigrant teachers' stories, as they compared their teaching experiences in their home country to their New Zealand teaching experience, offer…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Teacher Attitudes, Hermeneutics, Teaching Methods
Colegrove, Kiyomi Sánchez-Suzuki; Krause, Gladys Helena – Bilingual Research Journal, 2017
The purpose of this article is to counter widespread deficit discourses about Latino parental involvement in their children's education. In particular, we show Latino immigrant parents' views and understandings of curricular and pedagogical practices in elementary school, especially in mathematics. Using data from the Agency and Young Children…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Immigrants, Hispanic American Students, Elementary School Students
Ghiso, Maria Paula – Teachers College Record, 2016
Background: The learning of students from (im)migrant backgrounds has long been a consideration for the field of education. The "transnational" turn in research has brought to the forefront the need to account for students' language and literacy practices as situated within multiple national affiliations, fluid migration histories,…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Immigrants, Cultural Differences, Literacy
Matthiesen, Noomi Christine Linde – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2016
This article questions the dominant understanding that immigrant and refugee parents in parent-teacher conferences are silent because they come from a culture where one does not question the authority of the teacher. Instead, it is argued that they "become" silent through certain interactional processes. Building on material from an…
Descriptors: Parent Teacher Conferences, Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Refugees