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

by Shijing Xu

Overview

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 the lived moments of such transitional lives both in and out of school settings to demonstrate why a child would appear and disappear from different caregivers’ purview. Through the narrative lens of student and family life, the study illustrates the intersection of Confucian and Western philosophies of education and how their interaction creates complications as well as benefits for both traditions, hence, the idea of reciprocal learning.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319834412
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	05/12/2018
Series:	Intercultural Reciprocal Learning in Chinese and Western Education
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Pages:	277
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Shijing Xu is Canada Research Chair in International and Intercultural Reciprocal Learning in Education and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Windsor, Canada.

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