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Interagency Collaboration for Culturally Diverse Immigrant Children and Families: A Case Study with Historical and Contemporaneous Perspectives
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Bhavnagri, Navaz Peshotan; Krolikowski, Sue; Vaswani, Thrity G. – Childhood Education, 2006
Interagency collaboration is critically needed to address an exponentially increasing immigrant population in the United States. In this article, the authors, in presenting the case study on the International Institute of Metropolitan Detroit (IIMD), advocate for interagency collaboration to help immigrant children and families, and provide…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Agency Cooperation, Student Diversity, Case Studies
Expanding Roles of Teachers for the 21st Century: An Indian Context.
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Bhavnagri, Navaz Peshotan; Vaswani, Thrity G. – Childhood Education, 1999
Examines the rationale for expanding teachers' roles, using preschool education in the slums of Baroda, India, as an illustrative study, and its implications for teacher preparation in 21st-century United States. Considers the roles of child educator and advocate, family-life educator, environment educator, economic adviser, and health educator.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Advocacy, Cooperation, Elementary Education