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:	9783319461038
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	06/28/2017
Series:	Intercultural Reciprocal Learning in Chinese and Western Education
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	277
File size:	685 KB

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