Cross-Cultural Schooling Experiences of Chinese Immigrant Families In Search of Home in Times of Transition /

• Main Author: Xu, Shijing (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Intercultural Reciprocal Learning in Chinese and Western Education
• Subjects: Education.; International education.; Comparative education.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; International and Comparative Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.

This book introduces the concept of reciprocal educational learning among cultures with very different historical and philosophical origins. The concept of reciprocal learning grows out of a four year study of immigrant Chinese family narrative experiences in a Western context. This book captures th...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Being “Chinese” on Landscapes in Transition
• Chapter 2. In the Midst of Stories: Is Seeing Believing?
• Chapter 3. Grandparents’ Sense of Home: “Money Cannot Buy the Heart”
• Chapter 4. A Mother’s Hope: Hui Lan’s Family Stories
• Chapter 5. Life in Transition: Newcomer Boy Zhi Gao
• Chapter 6. Life in Transition: Newcomer Boy Yang Yang
• Chapter 7. Life in Transition: Newcomer Boy Jia Ming
• Chapter 8. Intersecting Newcomer Families’ Narratives on Landscapes in Transition
• Chapter 9. Sketching Unseen Lives of Immigrant Children between Home and School.