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X. Christine Wang; Ekaterina Strekalova-Hughes – Journal of Multilingual Theories and Practices, 2024
Foregrounding the agency and voices of families who sought refuge in the United States, we investigated their storytelling by asking: What kinds of stories do parents/guardians choose to share? And what are the purposes of their storytelling? Assisted by interpreters, we worked with nine families with children aged from five to eight years, who…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Relocation, Story Telling
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Ayesha Khurshid; Melba Marin-Velasquez – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2025
Using oral histories of three generations of a Tzotzil Maya Muslim family in Chiapas, Mexico, this paper examines how these members navigate and make meaning of their different identities as their traditional knowledge systems have been disrupted by land dispossession and displacement. This storied process illustrates the knowledge production and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Maya (People), Muslims, Indigenous Knowledge
Dalia Mohamed – ProQuest LLC, 2024
My study aimed to explore the phenomenon of the deterioration of culture and language in an indigenous population due to the establishment of large development projects. I focused on the historical displacement and forced relocation faced by the Nubian population in Egypt as an example. My study highlighted the role of women in preserving the…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Minorities, Females, Role Theory
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Kwon, Jungmin – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2019
The study reported in this paper focuses on the narratives of six adult Third Culture Kids (TCKs) who lived in multiple countries during developmental years. It explores their childhood experiences with mobility and the impact that multiple shifts in location, culture, and language have had on their adult lives. The results indicate that they come…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Cultural Background, Cultural Pluralism, Personal Narratives
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Hawkman, Andrea M.; Tofel-Grehl, Colby; Searle, Kristin; MacDonald, Beth L. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2022
Children's literature provides elementary teachers and students the opportunity to critically engage in the world around them. However, too often teachers choose not to engage students in discussions of complex social issues out of a sense of fear or discomfort. In this paper, we explore the reflections of 11 teachers who chose to engage their…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Childrens Literature, Social Emotional Learning, Social Problems
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Fanning, Sean; Burns, Edgar – Journal of Research in International Education, 2017
This article recounts the story of Jack's primary and secondary schooling career across several countries and eventual relocation and tertiary education in Victoria, Australia. His narrative is described here as an antipodean educational trajectory. What is meant by antipodean education is contrasted to the long established concept of the third…
Descriptors: International Education, Relocation, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education