Understanding the Transnational Lives and Literacies of Immigrant Children by Ju

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Provides targeted suggestions that educators can use to ensure successful teaching and learning with today's growing population of transnational, multilingual students. The text offers insights based on the author's observations, interactions, and interviews with second-generation immigrant children, their families, and their teachers

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This book provides targeted suggestions that educators can use to ensure successful teaching and learning with today's growing population of transnational, multilingual students. The text offers insights based on the author's observations, interactions, and interviews with second-generation immigrant children, their families, and their teachers in the United States and South Korea. These collected stories give educators a better understanding of how elementary school children engage in language, literacy, and learning in and across spaces and countries; the forms of unique linguistic and cultural knowledge immigrant children build, expand, and mobilize as they move across contexts; the ways in which immigrant children position themselves and represent their identities; and how educators and researchers can honor these children's identities and unique talents. Featuring children's narratives, drawings, writings, maps, and photographs, this resource is a must-read for educators and researchers seeking to create more inclusive learning spaces and literacy practices.Book Features:Examples of students' literacy practices with insights for more effective teaching.Practical lessons gleaned from children engaging with language and literacy in flexible and dynamic ways in their everyday lives.Targeted suggestions to help educators better understand and utilize children's unique linguistic abilities and cultural understandings.Discussion questions and examples that challenge deficit perspectives of immigrant children and reposition them as multilingual and transnational experts. Implications for educators and researchers seeking ways to amplify young immigrant children's voices and leverage their knowledge.

Author Biography

Jungmin Kwon is an assistant professor in the Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State University.

Review

"In this timely work, Kwon offers a valuable educational resource for practitioners and researchers alike, providing suggestions, based upon her ethnographic research, that can be used to support successful teaching and learning of transnational, multilingual learners. Within her work, Kwon aims to transcend the traditional boundaries of language and literacy practices to position immigrant children as experts. As such, the text encourages individuals that work with these learners to honor their identities and unique talents as a foundation for their academic growth and development."—Teachers College Record"Kwon, an ethnographic researcher, challenges today's educators to rethink literacy strategies that are being taught to young immigrant children in the US."—CHOICE

Long Description

This book provides targeted suggestions that educators can use to ensure successful teaching and learning with today?s growing population of transnational, multilingual students. The text offers insights based on the author?s observations, interactions, and interviews with second-generation immigrant children, their families, and their teachers in the United States and South Korea. These collected stories give educators a better understanding of how elementary school children engage in language, literacy, and learning in and across spaces and countries; the forms of unique linguistic and cultural knowledge immigrant children build, expand, and mobilize as they move across contexts; the ways in which immigrant children position themselves and represent their identities; and how educators and researchers can honor these children?s identities and unique talents. Featuring children?s narratives, drawings, writings, maps, and photographs, this resource is a must-read for educators and researchers seeking to create more inclusive learning spaces and literacy practices. Book Features: Examples of students? literacy practices with insights for more effective teaching. Practical lessons gleaned from children engaging with language and literacy in flexible and dynamic ways in their everyday lives. Targeted suggestions to help educators better understand and utilize children?s unique linguistic abilities and cultural understandings. Discussion questions and examples that challenge deficit perspectives of immigrant children and reposition them as multilingual and transnational experts. Implications for educators and researchers seeking ways to amplify young immigrant children?s voices and leverage their knowledge.

Promotional "Headline"

?Kwon invites us to recognize children in immigrant families as transnational and multilingual experts whose stories can teach us all important lessons about caring, learning, and sharing that can make the world a better place.? ?From the Foreword by Catherine Compton-Lilly, John C. Hungerpiller Professor, University of South Carolina

Description for Reader

Jungmin Kwon is an assistant professor in the Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State University.

Details ISBN0807766615 Author Catherine Compton-Lilly Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 0807766615 ISBN-13 9780807766613 Format Hardcover Publisher Teachers' College Press Imprint Teachers' College Press Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Series Language and Literacy Series Publication Date 2022-04-22 AU Release Date 2022-04-22 NZ Release Date 2022-04-22 US Release Date 2022-04-22 UK Release Date 2022-04-22 Pages 160 DEWEY 371.826912 Audience Professional & Vocational Alternative 9780807766606 We've got this

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