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Cross-Cultural Schooling Experiences of Chinese Immigrant Families

In Search of Home in Times of Transition

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Authors:
  1. Shijing Xu

    1. Faculty of Education, University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada

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  • Focuses on assimilation in terms of individual learning which is often at the expense of the understanding of the educational experience and role of the family
  • Illustrates the idea of reciprocal learning through the intersection of Confucian and Western, and Deweyian philosophies of education
  • Examines how education emerges out of different social, cultural, and philosophical narrative threads that influence the details of curriculum, schooling, and family education

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Being “Chinese” on Landscapes in Transition

    • Shijing Xu
    Pages 1-14

  3. In the Midst of Stories: Is Seeing Believing?

    • Shijing Xu
    Pages 15-26

  4. Grandparents’ Sense of Home: “Money Cannot Buy the Heart”

    • Shijing Xu
    Pages 27-52

  5. A Mother’s Hope: Hui Lan’s Family Stories

    • Shijing Xu
    Pages 53-86

  6. Life in Transition: Newcomer Boy Zhi Gao

    • Shijing Xu
    Pages 87-126

  7. Life in Transition: Newcomer Boy Yang Yang

    • Shijing Xu
    Pages 127-149

  8. Life in Transition: Newcomer Boy Jia Ming

    • Shijing Xu
    Pages 151-185

  9. Intersecting Newcomer Families’ Narratives on Landscapes in Transition

    • Shijing Xu
    Pages 187-218

  10. Sketching Unseen Lives of Immigrant Children between Home and School

    • Shijing Xu
    Pages 219-252

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 253-277
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Education, University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada

    Shijing Xu

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Cross-Cultural Schooling Experiences of Chinese Immigrant Families

  • Book Subtitle: In Search of Home in Times of Transition

  • Authors: Shijing Xu

  • Series Title: Intercultural Reciprocal Learning in Chinese and Western Education

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46103-8

  • 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 International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83441-2Published: 12 May 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-46103-8Published: 28 June 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2946-417X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2946-4188

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 277

  • Topics: International and Comparative Education, Educational Policy and Politics

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