Thomas S. Avery
Thomas S. Avery
Education Alumni
University of Bath
Department of Education
October 2018
Refugee Children’s Experiences of Integration and Education through Language and Literacies
I’m interested in the knowledges and literacies refugee-background children bring with them and how these are (not) used within our monolingual, monocultural curriculum, which often views non-English speakers as running…
I’m interested in the knowledges and literacies refugee-background children bring with them and how these are (not) used within our monolingual, monocultural curriculum, which often views non-English speakers as running at a “deficit”. Within this, I focus on how these assumptions affect refugee integration into society, their sense of belonging, and their developing identities within the label of refugee.
At a broader level, I explore discourses of migration, particularly how mediatised political narratives of the migrant and the “refugee crisis” affect the influence of research on policy, pedagogy, and the interplay between these.
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