Traveller, Nomadic and Migrant Education (Routledge Research in Education) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 041565291X ISBN 13: 9780415652919

Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

This edited collection explores the challenges and innovations in providing education for mobile communities across the world. While obstacles such as negative stereotypes and centuries-old prejudice remain problematic, the book also shows how educational innovations such as online education and mobile schools are bringing mobility and schooling together.

About this title

About the Author

Patrick Alan Danaher is Associate Professor (Education Research) in the Faculty of Education, and Scholarship of Learning and Teaching Program Leader in the Centre for Research in Transformative Pedagogies, at the Toowoomba campus of the University of Southern Queensland University, Australia.

Máirín Kenny was Headmistress until 1998 of a primary school for Traveller children. She now works as a research consultant, and has written and lectured extensively on intercultural school provision and on Travellers’ ethnic identity.

Judith Remy Leder is a writing consultant and retired Director of the California State University, Fullerton, Business Writing Program.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 041565291X
• ISBN 13: 9780415652919
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 268
• Editor: Danaher Patrick Alan, Kenny Máirín, Remy Leder Judith