| Autor: |
Amal Madibbo, Mariama Zaami |
| Rok vydání: |
2021 |
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| Zdroj: |
Third International Handbook of Globalisation, Education and Policy Research ISBN: 9783030660024 |
| DOI: |
10.1007/978-3-030-66003-1_37 |
| Popis: |
This chapter analyses how Canadian educational policy impacts African immigrant youth in Canada in the context of the contemporary global migration. Immigration into Canada continues to increase, allowing Canada to sustain its population growth and educational success in a competitive globalized world. Canada develops education policy to enable immigrants to succeed and integrate in the society smoothly. Since language plays an important role in educational and societal success, Canada has designed language programs in English as a Second Language (ESL) and French as a Second Language (FSL) for newcomers and immigrants to facilitate their transition to the Canadian society. Thus, this chapter illuminates how ESL education impacts Sub-Saharan African immigrant youth from Ghana, Sudan and South Sudan, highlighting both positive and problematic implications. Drawing on the literature on ESL education and a qualitative research methodology that utilized semi-structured interviews, we corroborate that ESL education is beneficial for the students who need to learn English from the start. However, in is not useful for students who already have proficiency in the English language or require improvements in specific aspects of the language. This situation is due to shortcomings in the structure of the ESL education that lacks proper assessment of the immigrants’ academic and linguistic knowledge. We make policy recommendations to improve these shortcomings and expand the success of Africans in Canada. More flexible thinking about globalization and global education would ameliorate the images about Africa and African education and assist in making Canadian education and African education mutually beneficial. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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