Overview
- Appeals to educators and administrators looking to obtain greater cross-cultural understanding of the needs of immigrant students and families
- Employs narrative inquiry to probe Chinese immigrant mothers’ experience with the Canadian school system
- Provides first-hand lived experience and observations on Chinese family culture and immigrant mothers’ educational values and practice
Part of the book series: Intercultural Reciprocal Learning in Chinese and Western Education (IRLCWE)
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About this book
This volume explores cross-cultural encounters with schooling among Chinese immigrant mothers in Canada. Using a narrative inquiry approach, the author sets out to spotlight the challenges facing immigrant parents and students as they begin to integrate into Western society and culture, specifically focusing on aspects of their experience including the intergenerational relationship between students and parents, home-school relations, and interactions with other Chinese immigrant parents. Chapters address intercultural differences as a reference point for understanding immigrant parents' views on schooling, moral education, and parenting practices.
Reviews
—Deng Zongyi, Professor of Curriculum and Pedagogy, UCL Institute of Education, University College London“The author’s unique positioning as a narrative inquirer allows readers access to the first-hand accounts of the mothers as they struggle to make sense of teaching and learning in China and in Canada with their children’s best interests at heart. Throughout the powerful discussions, a sense of inquiry prevails, and many new insights are gleaned. One vividly sees the different national approaches as arising from different histories, different cultures, and different interactions experienced over different continua of time. In short, this book bridges life-worlds.”
—Cheryl J. Craig, Professor and Houston Endowment Endowed Chair of Urban Education, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA, and American Educational Research Fellow “This is a beautifully written book of narrative inquiry. These Chinese immigrant mothers put their trust in the author and told her stories, concerns and anxieties that they would not confide in other less sympathetic listeners. An excellent account and insightful analysis of their unique experiences is now offered to the English-speaking readers.”
—Chen Xiangming, Professor of Graduate School of Education, Peking University, China, and Member of the Academic Committee of the Chinese Society of Education
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Xiaohong Chi is Chair of the Department of English Education in the School of Education at Shanghai International Studies University, China.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cross-Cultural Experiences of Chinese Immigrant Mothers in Canada
Book Subtitle: Challenges and Opportunities for Schooling
Authors: Xiaohong Chi
Series Title: Intercultural Reciprocal Learning in Chinese and Western Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46977-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-46976-4Published: 06 June 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-46979-5Published: 06 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-46977-1Published: 05 June 2020
Series ISSN: 2946-417X
Series E-ISSN: 2946-4188
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 233
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: International and Comparative Education, Asian Culture, Educational Philosophy, Curriculum Studies, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging