The Construction, Negotiation, and Representation of Immigrant Student Identities in South African schools

Anglický jazyk

The Construction, Negotiation, and Representation of Immigrant Student Identities in South African schools

Vydavateľstvo: Information Age Publishing
Rok vydania: 2015
Formát: Paperback
Rozmer: 234 x 156 mm
Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
ISBN: 9781623968861

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O knihe

A volume in Education Policy in Practice: Critical Cultural Studies
Series Editors Edmund T. Hamann, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
and Rodney Hopson, George Mason University
This is a ground-breaking research study on Black immigrant identities in
South African schools. It is the first major book on racial integration and
immigrant children in South African schools. The overall aim of this study is
to investigate how immigrant students negotiate and mediate their identity
within the South African schooling context.
This study set out to explain this complex phenomenon, guided by the following research objectives: One, to
describe how immigrant student identities are framed, challenged, asserted and negotiated within the institutional
cultures of schools. Two, to evaluate the extent to which the ethos of these schools has been transformed towards
integration in the truest sense and to determine how immigrant students perceive this in practice? Three, to
explore the 'transnational social fields' in terms of social networks and cross-border linkages of immigrant students
and how this impacts on their identity formation. Four, to determine if there are any new forms of immigrant
student self-identities that are beginning to emerge? Five, to determine the extent to which racial
desegregation has been accompanied by social integration between immigrant and local students. Six, to determine
the impact of the South African social/schooling context on immigrant student identity formation. And
seven, to identify critical lessons and 'good practice' that could be learnt and
used to accelerate the racial desegregation and social integration of immigrant
students in South African schools.