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Reconceptualizing Education for Newcomer Students: Valuing Learning Experiences Inside and Outside of School

Reconceptualizing Education for Newcomer Students: Valuing Learning Experiences Inside and Outside of School

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General EducationGeneral SociologyImmigration & Refugees

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ISBN10: 0807768499
ISBN13: 9780807768495
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: Sep 22 2023
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.95
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Countless reforms and interventions have sought to improve academic outcomes for immigrant-origin students, with labels like at-risk rushing forth to solve the dropout crisis. And yet, even in culturally and linguistically affirmative environments, youth still fall to the margins. Using research from a newcomer school located in New York City, the author explores the everyday lives of nine immigrant students outside of school, showing that youth are not simply waiting for school reforms. Their educational lives are not bound to institutional spaces or the logics of schooling. Instead, youth routinely take up educational practices that are intellectually rigorous, joyous, resilient, and fulfilling. These practices reveal educations that are not held to a single place or purpose. Instead, they are present in schools, on subways, at museums, in neighborhoods, across many other places, and always on the move. Using a historical and ethnographic lens, this book challenges researchers and educators to consider how education might be reconceptualized to better respond to marginalization and exclusion and, in the process, provoke new understandings of education itself.

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