Immigrant student achievement and education policy : cross-cultural approaches / Louis Volante, Don Klinger, Ozge Bilgili, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

Volante, Louis, editor.

Klinger, Don, editor.

Bilgili, Ozge, editor.

Series:

Policy implications of research in education ; 9.

Policy implications of research in education ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrant students--Education.

Immigrant students.

Academic achievement.

Education and state.

Education.

Physical Description:

xvii, 214 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer, [2018]

Summary:

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. The book offers insights into a diverse cross-section of nations and policy approaches to addressing the performance disadvantage.

Contents:

Part I: Introduction

Immigrant student achievement and the performance disadvantage / Ozge Bilgili, Louis Volante, and Don Klinger

Part II: National profiles

Immigrant student achievement and educational policy in England / John Jerrim

Immigrant student achievement and education policy in Germany / Janna Teltemann and Dominique Rauch

Immigrant student achievement and educational policy in Italy / Marco Catarci

Immigrant student achievement and education policy in Sweden / Lisbeth Lundahl and Michael Lindblad

Immigrant student achievement and education policy in Finland / Heidi Harju-Luukkainen and Nele McElvany

Immigrant student achievement and education policy in the Netherlands / Jaap Scheerens and Greetje van der Werf

Immigrant student achievement and educational policy in Ireland / Merike Darmody and Erner Smyth

Immigrant Student Achievement and Educational Policy in Canada / Liying Cheng and Wei Yan

Immigrant student achievement and education policy in Australia / Anthony Welch

Immigrant student achievement and education policy in New Zealand / Jenny Poskitt

Part III: Conclusion

Cross-cultural approaches to mitigating the immigrant student performance disadvantage / Don Klinger, Louis Volante, and Ozge Bilgili.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

9783319740621

3319740628

OCLC:

1015242364