Transiency in urban schools: Challenges and opportunities in educating ELLs with a migrant background

AA Nevárez-La Torre - Education and Urban Society, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Many urban classrooms are facing an influx of students who are transient, part of migrant
families who decide to reside in cities and large urban centers looking for financial stability …

Back and forth: Immigrants' stories of migration and return

M Tannenbaum - International migration, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
This study focuses on the experience of re‐migration. It uses the narratives of 32 adults,
emigrants from Israel who intended to stay abroad permanently, but eventually returned, to …

Homelessness in the elementary school classroom: Social and emotional consequences

KA Chow, RS Mistry, VL Melchor - International Journal of …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
This study examined elementary school teachers' experiences working with homeless
students. Specifically, we focused on the psychosocial impacts of homelessness on students …

Gypsy children, space, and the school environment

MP Levinson, AC Sparkes - International Journal of Qualitative …, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
This article draws on data generated from a 3½‐year ethnographic study of the interface
between Gypsy culture and the educational system in England. The evidence suggests that …

School readiness for young migrant children: The challenge and the outlook

S Mathur, G Parameswaran - International Scholarly Research …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
There is evidence that children from families of migrant workers are among the most
disadvantaged in term of early academic achievement. Yet there are insufficient resources …

The impact of social capital on the education of migrant children

JP Salinas - Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This study used a life‐history qualitative research design to explore social capital within
migrant families to understand the impact of social capital on the education of migrant …

Socio-economic, cultural, social, and cognitive aspects of family background and the biology competency of ninth-graders in Germany

B Akukwe, U Schroeders - Learning and Individual Differences, 2016 - Elsevier
Students' academic achievement is related to different family background factors such as
socio-economic, cultural, social, and cognitive factors. Research on family background has …

Coping strategies among internal migrant students in Turkey

HK Altinyelken - International Journal of Educational Research, 2009 - Elsevier
This article is based on a qualitative study that explored educational challenges and coping
mechanisms of internal migrant girls whose families moved from the rural areas in the east …

Biliteracy summer schools: Breaking the cycle of monolingualism in migrant families

F Rodriguez-Valls, M Montoya… - Childhood Education, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Immigration and the role of language in education have been major issues in governance
and education across the world. The current study looks at a family biliteracy program for 2 …

Graffiti walls: Migrant students and the art of communicative languages

F Rodríguez-Valls, S Kofford… - Journal of Social …, 2012 - scholarscompass.vcu.edu
Visual Arts help to create communicative actions between teachers and students. In this
article, we explain the interdisciplinary methodology–Visual Arts and Language Arts–utilized …