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Christine Massing; Charles Gyan; Crystal J. Giesbrecht; Daniel Kikulwe; Needal Ghadi – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2024
Childcare programs enable newcomers' adaptation and integration to life in the host country by allowing them to access employment and educational opportunities while building new social networks. Newcomer children's participation in quality childcare programs also fulfills their right to education and care while enhancing their development,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preferences, Child Care, Disadvantaged
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Wei Mao; Laura K. Doan; Victoria Handford – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
Although scholars have researched Chinese parents' perspectives on play pedagogy, few investigate the differences between parents of preschoolers and early primary schoolers, non-immigrant and immigrant parents. The present study employs the theoretical framework of parental ethnotheories to describe parental understanding and concerns about the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Elementary School Students
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Hudson, Christopher; Luguetti, Carla; Spaaij, Ramon – Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 2023
The field of physical education (PE), sport, and forced migration studies has grown considerably in recent years. Although we have seen an increase in publications in the field, no reviews of pedagogies regarding people with refugee backgrounds in PE and sport have been published to date. The purpose of this review is to critically examine…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Athletics, Refugees, Cultural Differences
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Kamran, Hamza; Hassan, Hadi; Ali, Mehr Un Nisa; Ali, Danish; Taj, Moizzuddin; Mir, Zara; Pandya, Munj; Steinberg, Shirley R.; Jamal, Aamir; Zaidi, Mukarram – Qualitative Research Journal, 2022
Purpose: This study examined 46 articles in total, which yielded 5 recurring themes: perceived discrimination, language barriers, socioeconomic barriers, cultural barriers and educational/knowledge barriers. The two most dominant themes found were the inability to speak the country's primary language and belonging to a culture with different…
Descriptors: Primary Health Care, Access to Health Care, Barriers, Immigrants
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Palova, Katerina; Pagtalunan, Amielle; Rahal, Louai; Kassan, Anusha – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2023
This literature review explores the integration experiences of francophone newcomer students in anglophone provinces in Canada. It outlines scholarly findings regarding factors that impact the integration of newcomer students into French public-school systems in predominantly English provinces. We identified two themes related to the integration…
Descriptors: Social Integration, Immigrants, French Canadians, School Psychology
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Vander Tavares – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
With the number of international students growing rapidly within (international) higher education, more attention has been focused on the need to consider international students' experiences, particularly those from the global south, from more critical, ethical and qualitative perspectives. This paper examines how the lived experiences of three…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Native Speakers, Foreign Students, Multilingualism
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Wu, Xi – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
In recent years, a large amount of Chinese international students, from middle or upper-middle class families, began their international education in Canadian secondary schools, where critical thinking is the main educational goal and often determines students' achievements. Guided by reflexivity in multilingual and intercultural education, this…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Secondary School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Anusha Kassan; Alissa Priolo; Michelle Tkachuk; Charis Falardeau – High School Journal, 2023
This descriptive psychological phenomenology investigated the experiences of newcomer youth who graduated from high school and transitioned to post-secondary education following migration to Canada. Ten individuals, between the ages of 18 and 30, completed a qualitative interview about their experiences of "school integration." Defined…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Immigrants, College Students, Student Adjustment
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Khan, Shahla Sattar; Takkac, Mehmet – English Language Teaching, 2019
There are some factors, which are motivational, and on the other hand, there are many challenges that may cause hindrance for learning English as a second language. Therefore, the main objective is to assess perception regarding factors for learning English as a second language, especially among new immigrants. This was a cross-sectional study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Immigrants
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Tavares, Vander – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2021
Interest in international student identity has grown considerably over the last few years. In the context of international education, the emphasis on identity and the individual student may also be seen as an emerging response to the tendency of discussing international students and their identity-related experiences in homogenising ways. While…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Self Concept, Cultural Differences, Higher Education
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Neupane, Dhruba – Journal of Teaching and Learning, 2022
Research in international student success, satisfaction, and challenges seems still to be constructed around the colonial, imperial paradigm. Informed by deficit models of language, culture, and literacy teaching, such research portrays international students' challenges in terms of deficiency; discounts other languages, cultures, and literacy…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Immigrants, Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement
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Avenido, Karlo – Journal of International Students, 2023
Internationalization continues to be a priority of the education mandate in British Columbia (BC). While there is currently a lack of exploratory studies on international students' (IS) experiences of challenges in their host institutions, little research has examined their experiences from sociocultural context-based standpoints. This study fills…
Descriptors: Intersectionality, Foreign Students, Student Attitudes, Educational Experience
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Warrican, S. Joel; Alleyne, Melissa; Smith, Patriann; Zaidi, Rahat; Esperat, Tala Karkar; Chen, Yi-Hsin; Yin, Yue – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2022
The United States and Canada, two countries known to have large immigrant populations, have long since reflected a dichotomy, where Canada is generally perceived to be a country with language policies that demonstrate its receptiveness to embrace multiculturalism in schools and classrooms. In contrast, the United States has consistently espoused…
Descriptors: Literacy, Cultural Differences, Comparative Analysis, Native Speakers
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Parnther, Ceceilia – Journal of College and Character, 2022
International students experience unique challenges that place them at risk for academic misconduct violations, including language, academic expectations, cultural differences, academic preparedness, and policy understanding. Academic misconduct issues can significantly risk student success, leaving international students especially susceptible to…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Cheating, Ethics, Barriers
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Parmis Aslanimehr – Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis, 2021
The proportion of foreign-born population in Canada is at the highest it has been in 70 years. Such an increase in immigration is projected to account for 100 percent of the population growth by 2026. The children of families arriving from different parts of the world into Canada's multicultural mosaic are commonly believed to have an easier time…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Migrant Children, Early Experience
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