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Weathering the Storm: How Mothers with Refugee Backgrounds Helped Their Children with School during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Stacey Wilson-Forsberg; Rosemary Kimani-Dupuis; Oliver Masakure – International Journal of Multicultural Education, 2024
This paper focuses on the experiences of ten women in Canada with refugee backgrounds from the Horn of Africa as they helped their adolescent children (ages 12-18) navigate the challenges of at-home online learning during the global COVID-19 pandemic. We situate our analysis within specific aspects of Yosso's (2005) Community Cultural Wealth…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Role
"Sometimes We Struggle, Sometimes We Push Back": The Educational Experiences and Aspirations of Youth with Refugee Backgrounds from the Horn of Africa
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Stacey Wilson-Forsberg; Oliver Masakure; Rosemary Kimani-Dupuis; Suman Mondal – Canadian Journal of Education, 2024
This qualitative article focuses on the high school experiences and post-secondary education (PSE) plans of 57 youth with refugee backgrounds from the Horn of Africa living in Ontario. The article is guided by two conceptual frameworks. The first is an anti-oppressive approach, which helps us examine the structural barriers at school that prevent,…
Descriptors: Educational Experience, Refugees, Background, High School Students