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Nguyen, Trang Thi Thuy – Language Policy, 2022
This article examines linguistic discrimination against minority students in Vietnamese mainstream schools, as represented in administrators', teachers' and minority students' experiences and perspectives. The concept of "educational linguicism" and three manifestations of educational linguicism, namely "stigmatisation,"…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Social Integration, Vietnamese, Ethnic Groups
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Mukhamejanova, Dinara; Konurbayeva, Zhadyra – International Journal of Comparative Education and Development, 2023
Purpose: This study examines diaspora engagement and return migration programs aimed at providing diaspora youth with an opportunity to obtain higher education in Estonia and Kazakhstan. In particular, the authors sought to identify the main motivations, benefits and challenges of the programs, as well as understand how the programs contribute to…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Immigration, Cross Cultural Studies, Higher Education
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Yagmur, Kutlay – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2019
European discourse on linguistic minorities reflect the construction of inter-ethnic boundaries between national (such as Dutch or French), indigenous minorities (such as Basque, Catalan or Frisian), and immigrant minorities (Arabic, Berber or Turkish). In the European public discourse on immigrant minority groups, two major characteristics…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Ethnic Groups, Immigrants, Minority Groups
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Jeong, Daeul; Hardy, Ian – Journal of Education Policy, 2023
This article explores policy enactment processes in relation to the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4), particularly its emphasis upon ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education. Specifically, as part of SDG4 in Laos, the research reveals how medium-of-instruction policy was enacted in relation to ethnic minorities,…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Language Minorities, Educational Change, Language Planning
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Lin, Cong; Jackson, Liz – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2020
Cosmopolitanism and its application for education in western societies has been well examined. Yet cosmopolitanism in society and in education has not been systematically explored in many Asian societies. Facing a large number of people from diverse backgrounds, the society and its education system in Hong Kong are troubled by issues similar to…
Descriptors: Nationalism, Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Asian Culture
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Wigglesworth-Baker, Teresa – Language Policy, 2018
This research analyses how effective multilingual educational reforms (MLE) have been in post-Soviet Georgia in helping ethnic minorities to learn Georgian as a second language in order to integrate into Georgian society. It also examines the language ideologies at play within the interactive dynamics of top-down and bottom-up discourses. This…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Educational Change, Language Attitudes, Social Integration
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Momtselidze, Giorgi – Acta Educationis Generalis, 2020
Introduction: The historical conditions that have developed over the centuries, as well as the migration processes of the 19th and 20th centuries, have determined the multi-ethnic composition of the country's population. Georgia, as a post-Soviet country, has been transitioning from totalitarianism to democracy for the last few years. The country…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Minority Group Students, Ethnic Groups, Social Change
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Qureshi, Yasmeen F.; Janmaat, Jan Germen – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2014
This article focuses specifically on the incorporation of ethnic minority children within the education systems of England, France and Germany. The trends in policy development after World War II in these countries are examined through the prism of three ideal-typical incorporation strategies--integration, assimilation and separation. This is done…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Trend Analysis, Ethnic Groups, Minority Groups
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Makarov, A. I. – Russian Education and Society, 2012
Research data on the dynamics of ethnocultural adaptation of migrant family students in Moscow schools shows a tension between assimilation and retention of one's cultural background. Ethnic differences create barriers between those of Russian and non-Russian ethnicity, including difficulties with language and the widespread phenomenon of…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Cultural Background, Acculturation, Immigrants
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Juhari, Shamsuri – Journal of International and Comparative Education, 2015
Statistics indicate that demographically, Singapore's minority Malay community, unlike the other ethnic groups in the small multicultural, multi-religious island-state, has yet to 'mature' and contribute fully to the country's economy. A subsequent argument is thus made on the need to ensure that learners from the community be developed in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnic Groups, Minority Groups, Economic Development
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Bryan, Audrey – Irish Educational Studies, 2010
This article offers an empirical critique of recent social and educational policy responses to cultural diversity in an Irish context, with a particular focus on anti-racism, integration and intercultural education policies developed during the so-called "Celtic Tiger" era. Combining ethnographic and discourse analytic techniques, I…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Cultural Pluralism, Irish, Minority Groups
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Kitching, Karl – Irish Educational Studies, 2010
This paper unearths the improvisational nature of Irish state exigencies and their central contribution to racialisation in and through schooling. The analysis unravels white-Irishness through gender and Traveller membership, in terms of its links to the state's early efforts at intelligibility and associated politics of desirable and viable…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Second Language Learning
De Coster, Isabelle – Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, European Commission, 2009
This document talks about immigrant children, who are defined here as either children born in another country (within or outside Europe) or children whose parents or grandparents were born in another country. So the term "immigrant children" used here covers various situations, which can be referred to in other contexts as…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Refugees, Minority Groups, Foreign Countries
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Vyas, Harshad V. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1992
Presents various approaches that have been used in multicultural education in England. Research on Gujeratis in Britain is used to illustrate the process of theory construction. (12 references) (LT)
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Ethnic Groups, Foreign Countries, Gujarati
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Abu-Rabia, Salim – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 1995
Reading comprehension experiments suggest that cultural content means little to Arab students reading in a second language (English). The students did just as well or better reading stories with no Arabic content. The study also found significant differences in the learning strategies of male and female Arab students. (MJP)
Descriptors: Acculturation, Arabs, Cultural Background, Cultural Interrelationships
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