Overview

This important book offers strategies, models, and concrete ideas for better serving newcomer immigrant and refugee youth in U.S. schools, with a focus on grades 6–12. The authors present 20 strategies grouped under three categories: (1) classroom and instructional design, (2) school design, and (3) extracurricular, community, and alumni partnerships. Each chapter provides research-based information, classroom examples, tips for implementing each strategy, and additional resources. Readers will find engaging profiles of schools, students, and alumni interspersed throughout the book, offering both varied perspectives and practical advice. Humanizing Education for Immigrant and Refugee Youth will assist today's educators, school leaders, policymakers, and scholars interested in the holistic success and well-being of immigrant and refugee students.Book Features: Practical strategies for educators and school leaders are rooted in empirical research and classroom narratives from across the United States. Multiple, real-life examples are used to illustrate each strategy. Each chapter concludes with a brief summary and recommended resources. School and student profiles demonstrate what the strategies look like in practice, as well as their benefits for students. Diverse perspectives are presented by researchers, classroom teachers, school leaders, and newcomer students.

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“This book is equally valuable for teachers, school staff, and parents. The authors include researchers and practitioners of immigrant and refugee education. The book draws on our perspectives on immigrants or children of migrants/refugees, educators, school leaders, and researchers. Based on a sound theoretical framework of the school community approach in the first section, the book gets into strategies on how to translate the theory into practice.” —Comparative Education Review “In the face of dehumanizing systems, institutions, and relations that further stigmatize and marginalize immigrant and refugee populations, this book offers interrelated strategies that advance social justice through education.” —Teachers College Record “The editors and contributors have provided a blueprint for how to best meet the educational, social, emotional, and community needs of immigrant and refugee youth and, by extension, their families. Moreover, I believe they have provided us with a blueprint for how we can and should advance education more broadly and how schooling can and should work for all students.” —Journal of Human Rights

"""In the face of dehumanizing systems, institutions, and relations that further stigmatize and marginalize immigrant and refugee populations, this book offers interrelated strategies that advance social justice through education."" —Teachers College Record"

“This book is equally valuable for teachers, school staff, and parents. The authors include researchers and practitioners of immigrant and refugee education. The book draws on our perspectives on immigrants or children of migrants/refugees, educators, school leaders, and researchers. Based on a sound theoretical framework of the school community approach in the first section, the book gets into strategies on how to translate the theory into practice.” —Comparative Education Review “In the face of dehumanizing systems, institutions, and relations that further stigmatize and marginalize immigrant and refugee populations, this book offers interrelated strategies that advance social justice through education.” —Teachers College Record

Author Information

Monisha Bajaj is professor of International and Multicultural Education at the University of San Francisco and visiting professor at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. Daniel Walsh is faculty associate in Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Lesley Bartlett is professor and department chair of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Gabriela Martínez is a recent graduate of the Masters in Migration Studies Program at the University of San Francisco.

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