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Immigrant
Youth Issues
This group has evolved through collaboration among three
previous CCICY interest groups, ESL high school teaching,
high school dropout concerns, and justice issues for immigrant
kids. The three groups are related to each other in the
sense of equality of opportunity to complete high school,
dropout pressures, issues of discrimination, racism, low
teachers' expectations, etc., and to pedagogical issues
that include ESL.
Join the discussion! Connect with educators across the country!
What are we doing to support immigrant children and youth?
What could we be doing? How can we become better advocates?
What are the issues we have in common?
The “sponsors” of this group are: Sylvia Helmer,
our proponent of an interest group within CCICY for those
interested in high school ESL teaching and learning; Daniel
Shugurensky, who proposed a special interest group about
research (and action) on high school dropouts among the
immigrant students; and Julie King, who works with the Ontario
Justice Education Network on immigrant youth and justice
issues. If you would like to get involved in the discussion
and action, please contact Daniel (dshugurensky@oise.utoronto.ca),
or Sylvia (shelmer@sfu.ca)
or Julie King (jking@ojen.ca).
The
following are some materials which are important readings
for those interested in immigrant youth issues.
Gunderson,
L. (2000). Voices of the teenage diasporas. Journal
of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 43, 692-706.
Gunderson,
L. (2004). The language, literacy, achievement, and social
consequences of English-Only programs for immigrant students.
In Fairbanks, C.M., Worthy, J., Maloch, B.,Hoffman, J.V.,
& Schallert, D.L. (Eds.), 53rd yearbook of the National
Reading Conference (pp. 1-27). Milwaukee: National
Reading Conference.
Berry,
J.W., J.S. Phinney, D.L. Sam & P. Vedder (Eds.) (2006).
Immigrant youth in cultural transition: Acculturation,
identity and adaptation across national context. Mahwah,
NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Toohey,
Kelleen & Tracey M. Derwing (2006) Hidden losses: How
demographics can encourage incorrect assumptions about ESL
high school students’ success. Paper name 06-11 at
http://www.riim.metropolis.net/frameset_e.html
Also to appear in Alberta Journal of Educational Research.
Early Childhood Working Group
As part of the Canadian Coalition for Immigrant Children
and Youth, the Early Childhood Working Group will advocate
for more and better services and supports for immigrant
children and their families, with a focus on children from
birth to age eight. The Early Childhood Working Group is
also interested in examining literacy and language issues,
especially retention of first language in the home; early
learning and child care; and parenting supports.
Please visit http://immigrantchildren.ca or contact Sonia
Worotynec at zsw@vex.net
