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Georgia State University

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Middle and Secondary Education Faculty Publications

2012

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Connecting Transnationalism To The Classroom And To Theories Of Immigrant Student Adaptation, G. Sue Kasun Jan 2012

Connecting Transnationalism To The Classroom And To Theories Of Immigrant Student Adaptation, G. Sue Kasun

Middle and Secondary Education Faculty Publications

This essay describes the importance of transnationalism in the lives of U.S. immigrant students and their families and how public school educators and researchers have neither adequately recognized nor situated this lifestyle. The authors discuss globalization and what propels transnational movement and argue that existing immigrant adaptation research from the fields of sociology and anthropology focuses on immigration processes extensively without making connections to the classroom. The authors maintain that transnationalism remains largely undertheorized in educational research. Drawing on their experiences as researchers and teachers, the authors provide a glimpse into the lives of these ‘overlooked’ transnational students through a …


Disclosure, Dialogue And Coming Of Age In The Academy, Gertrude Tinker Sachs, Pier Angeli Junor Clarke, Wanjira Kinuthia, Ewa Mcgrail, Geeta Verma Jan 2012

Disclosure, Dialogue And Coming Of Age In The Academy, Gertrude Tinker Sachs, Pier Angeli Junor Clarke, Wanjira Kinuthia, Ewa Mcgrail, Geeta Verma

Middle and Secondary Education Faculty Publications

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Atlanta’S Desegregation Era Social Studies Curriculum: An Examination Of Georgia History Textbooks, Chara H. Bohan, Patricia Randolph Jan 2012

Atlanta’S Desegregation Era Social Studies Curriculum: An Examination Of Georgia History Textbooks, Chara H. Bohan, Patricia Randolph

Middle and Secondary Education Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.