1st Edition

Preparing and Supporting Teachers of Immigrant and Refugee Students

110 Pages

by Routledge

110 Pages

by Routledge

110 Pages

by Routledge

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Teachers are vital for the integration of immigrant, refugee and asylum-seeking students; however, they are not often prepared or supported to meet the needs of these students. Teacher training programs rarely focus on strategies and interventions for immigrant students’ needs, and even less on the special situations of refugee and asylum-seeking youth, leaving teachers largely unprepared to deal... Read more

Introduction: Preparing and supporting teachers of immigrant and refugee students
Lisa Damaschke-Deitrick, Ericka Galegher, Annika Wilmers and Alexander W. Wiseman

1. Teaching refugee and forced immigrant youth: lessons from the United States
Lisa Damaschke-Deitrick, Ericka Galegher, Petrina M. Davidson and Alexander W. Wiseman

2. Preparing teachers for diversity: how are teacher education systems responding to cultural diversity – the case of Austria and Ireland
Barbara Herzog-Punzenberger, Martin Brown, Herbert Altrichter and Sarah Gardezi

3. Teacher perspectives on fostering collaborative relationships with families with refugee backgrounds
Shana J. Haines and Cynthia C. Reyes

4. Initial teacher training for secondary schools – a new curriculum for the age of migration?
Barbara Herzog-Punzenberger

5. Radical acceptance: teachers who support students with migrant, refugee, and asylum seeker backgrounds
Maura Sellars

6. Teaching refugee students: The role of teachers’ attitudes towards cultural diversity
Birgit Becker, Eva Raschke, Svenja Vieluf, Susanne Böse, Anna Laschewski, Dominique Rauch, and Patricia Stošić