Teaching technologies for immigrant children: an exploratory study of elementary school teachers in Russia*

ABSTRACT

Educational institutions are an important setting where psychological, pedagogical, sociocultural, and language adaptation of immigrant children occurs. A number of teaching strategies, practices, approaches, and methods have been described in the literature. In the Russian context, such strategies have been called ‘technologies’. The purpose of the present exploratory study was to describe teaching technologies used by teachers in Russia when working with immigrant students in elementary schools. Responses of forty-five elementary school teachers to open-ended questions describing technologies they use when teaching children with migration backgrounds were analyzed using content analysis. Findings suggest that Russian elementary school teachers used ethno-cultural group, communicative technologies, games, individualized instruction, and differentiated teaching. Many approaches mentioned can be used inclusively with groups of immigrant and non-immigrant students. Importantly, while teachers supplemented classroom instruction with additional Russian language lessons, none mentioned specific techniques for teaching Russian as a non-native language. These findings are discussed in relation to teaching strategies described in the international literature focused on migrant students. Finally, implications for further research are discussed.     

Having it all overseas: Aid workers and the international division of reproductive labour

This article examines the dynamics of power and privilege at work in international development through the prism of domestic service for expat aid workers in developing countries. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork amid aid workers and their domestic staff in Dakar, Senegal, I argue that access to affordable care work greatly enhances the lives of women who work overseas in development. The postcolonial underdevelopment and poverty that aid work addresses is paradoxically critical to the aid workers' own access to affordable care, family balance and the means to do their jobs. I put this insight into the larger scholarly conversation about domestic work and global inequality, including on the Global Care Chain.     

Land markets and migration trends in Tanzania: A qualitative‐quantitative analysis

While migration has been found to enhance welfare across a range of settings, most of the literature focuses on rural‐to‐urban migrant flows. Using a unique dataset from north‐western Tanzania, this article probes an important, yet overlooked, link between land markets and rural‐to‐rural migration. A mixed‐methods approach is used to discern how these two forces are intertwined in village life. Results indicate that household decisions to migrate are particularly influenced by the ease of market‐based land access in their new communities. This suggests that labour mobility may be facilitated through the development of a well‐functioning land market.     

State work and the testing concours of citizenship

Anyone trying to be a citizen has to pass through a set of practices trying to be a state. This paper investigates some of the ways testing practices calibrate citizens, and in doing so, perform “the state.” The paper focuses on three forms of citizenship testing, which it considers exemplary forms of “state work,” and which all, in various ways, concern “migration.” First, the constitution of a “border crossing,” which requires an identity test configured by deceptibility. Second, the Dutch asylum process, in which “being gay” can, in certain cases, be reason for being granted asylum, but where “being gay” is also the outcome of an examination organized by suspicion. And third, the Dutch measurement of immigrants’ “integration,” which is comprised of a testing process in which such factishes as “being a member of society” and “being modern” surface. Citizenship is analyzed in this paper as accrued and (re)configured along a migration trajectory that takes shape as a testing concours, meaning that subjects become citizens along a trajectory of testing practices. In contributing both to work on states and citizenship, and to work on testing, this paper thus puts forward the concept of citizenship testing as state work, where “state work is the term for that kind of labor that most knows itself as comparison, equivalency, and exchange in the social realm” (Harney, 2002, pp. 10–11). Throughout the testing practices discussed here, comparison, equivalency, and exchange figure prominently as the practical achievements of crafting states and citizens.     

数字时代的挑战与教育情报的对策

分析了数字时代的信息特点以及给教育情报领域带来的挑战 ,提出了教育情报面对现实应采取的对策。旨在从某个侧面强化教育信息资源建设的整合度。     

张克威的教育思想和办学经验--在50周年校庆之际对老院长的追思

张克威是中国著名的农学家、农业教育家 ,早年留学美国 ,抗日战争爆发他毅然回国投笔从戎 ,参加抗战和三年解放战争 ,新中国成立前后 ,开始筹办沈阳农学院 ,从此他把一生的精力和心血都倾注在高等农业教育事业上。他思路开阔 ,敢于创新 ,在办学过程中形成了自己的教育思想和办学经验。张克威的教育思想与办学经验有五个主要方面 :积极创办多科性农业大学 ;延揽人才 ,建设高水平的教师队伍 ;注重对学生理想教育 ,培养高素质人才 ;强调理论联系实际 ,推行教学、科研、推广三结合 ;发扬学术民主 ,培养勤奋求实校风。为此 ,“文化大革命”以前 ,沈阳农学院在国内外都享有很高声誉。     

中外合作办学的现状及问题分析

文章就中外合作办学的质量、合作者的水平和资质、合作办学的监管等问题进行了分析,并提出了相应的几点对策建议。     

对市场经济条件下教育产业的审视

由于对教育产业的内涵与外延缺乏清晰的界定,使得我们在市场经济条件下对其产生了诸多认识上的误区和适用上的混乱。教育产业的规定性是由其产品——教育服务的性质和生产过程的特征决定的,市场经济只不过是教育产业由幼稚走向成熟和强盛的一种有效的经济运行方式,二者之间是过程和手段、内容和形式的关系。     

梁实秋文学批评思想探源

由于染实秋家庭环境和所受教育不同于现代时期的其他作家 ,所以在留学过程中所接受的是白璧德的古典主义文学批评观 ,而这一批评观的来源则是新人文主义教育思想 ,新人文主义教育思想又是一种超越时空而不变的思想和文明境界 ,为此 ,我们不能简单地把梁实秋归结为保守主义者     

斯·茨威格的教育思想

茨威格在其回忆录和一些小说中，对奥地利当时的教育制度、教学计划、学校、教育者、学生等都是有颇多微词的。今天再来审视茨威格对他的中小学生活的回忆，可以看出他对旧教育制度的愤懑，也不难发现其中蕴含着具有远见卓识的教育理念，这在２１世纪我们大兴创新教育之际仍有借鉴作用。