Overview
- Examines the pressing challenge of integrating recent immigrants into education systems to enable them to become productive members of society
- Outlines the achievement gaps that exist between non-immigrant and immigrant student groups across a diverse cross-section of nations
- Describes the evolution of education policies designed to address the performance disadvantage of immigrant students’ across various cultural and educational contexts
- Provides a cross-cultural analysis of the effectiveness of various policy responses
Part of the book series: Policy Implications of Research in Education (PIRE, volume 9)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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National Profiles
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Conclusion
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book examines immigrant student achievement and education policy across a range of Western nations. It is divided into 3 sections: Part 1 introduces the topic of immigrant student achievement and the performance disadvantage that is consistently reported across a range of international jurisdictions. Part 2 then presents national profiles from scholars in ten countries (England, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Finland, Netherlands, Republic of Ireland, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand). These educational jurisdictions were selected because they represent a range of Western nations engaged in large-scale reform efforts geared towards enhancing their immigrant students’ achievement. Each of the national profiles provides a brief overview of the evolution of the cultural composition of their respective school-aged student population; explains the trajectory of achievement results in non-immigrant and immigrant student groups in relation to both national and international large-scale assessment measures; and discusses the effectiveness of policy responses that have been adopted to close the achievement gap between non-immigrant and immigrant student populations. It also examines the relationships between education policies and immigrant student achievement and discusses how education policies have evolved across various cultural contexts. In conclusion, Part 3 analyzes cross-cultural approaches designed to address the performance disadvantage of immigrant students and proposes future areas of inquiry stemming from the national profiles.Â
The book offers insights into a diverse cross-section of nations and policy approaches to addressing the performance disadvantage. Â
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Immigrant Student Achievement and Education Policy
Book Subtitle: Cross-Cultural Approaches
Editors: Louis Volante, Don Klinger, Ozge Bilgili
Series Title: Policy Implications of Research in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74063-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-74062-1Published: 03 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08910-8Published: 22 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-74063-8Published: 21 March 2018
Series ISSN: 2543-0289
Series E-ISSN: 2543-0297
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 214
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations
Topics: Educational Policy and Politics, International and Comparative Education, Sociology of Education