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Aijuan Cun – Urban Education, 2024
The purpose of this study is to explore the literacy practices of mothers with refugee backgrounds and the ways that they position themselves in relation to these practices. Data include fieldnotes, interviews, artifacts, and informal conversations. The findings reveal the participants' family literacy practices within the specific domains of…
Descriptors: Mothers, Refugees, Family Environment, Family Role
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Richards, Ben; Umayahara, Mami; Maw, Naing; Rao, Nirmala – Early Education and Development, 2021
Research Findings: This study examined the relation between early childhood education (ECE) participation and early child development in Myanmar. It considered whether this relation varied by ethnic group, language(s) spoken at home, and language(s) of ECE instruction. Participants were 1,494 children (759 girls) from Myanmar, aged between 36 and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Program Effectiveness
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Cun, Aijuan; Kfouri, Christiana – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2022
There is limited research concerning literacy practices of Syrian and Burmese refugee students and their families in the U.S. To help address this gap, drawing upon New Literacy Studies, this qualitative study explores the social literacy practices of Syrian and Burmese refugee families and how these practices are situated in wider cultural…
Descriptors: Refugees, Family Literacy, Literacy Education, Family Environment
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Laxton, Debra; Cooper, Linda; Shrestha, Purna; Younie, Sarah – Education 3-13, 2021
This case study used a co-creation approach to evaluate the effectiveness of a translational research strategy in supporting early childhood education. How Mapping Educational Specialist Knowhow (MESH) and Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) collaborated to enhance the training of volunteers and learning provision for 1,500 refugee children is…
Descriptors: Refugees, Case Studies, Objectives, Language Variation