A study on teachers'' teaching experiences of new immigrant children from a multicultural education perspective.

• Main Authors: Yu-ting Hung, 洪于婷
• Other Authors: Chin-Ju Mao
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/62649966177784521523

碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 教育研究所 === 95 === The purpose of this study is to examine teachers’ teaching experiences of new immigrants’ children from multicultural education perspectives. This study focuses on teachers’ cultural encounter experiences with these students and their parents, to realize what kind of social atmosphere teachers perceive in such a multicultural society. In addition, this study also examines how teachers consider the ‘background of cultural diversity’ and the ‘learning needs’ of new immigrant children during their teaching processes. Furthermore, it investigates the ways how teachers interact and communicate with new immigrant families, the ways how teachers consider about the cultural diversity of immigrant family, and especially issues of new immigrant female’s cultural diversity. Qualitative research methods are adopted in this study. ‘In-depth interviewing’ and ‘documents collecting’ are used to collect data. Two female elementary school teachers who have different personal experiences, and face different social cultural contexts are invited to participate in this study, to realize their teaching experiences of new immigrant children. After analyzing their teaching experiences from a multicultural education perspective, the author concludes as follows. 1.Teachers’ consideration about learning needs of new immigrant children are predominated by cultural deprivation educational policies. 2.Establishing a publicity which is critical that can help teacher to stick up to the stigmas from the discourses of public opinion and media. 3.Bounteous field experiences of cultural encounters can enhance the understandings of diversity cultures for teachers. 4.Teachers are in a dilemma as to ‘reveal’ or to ‘hide’ the cultural diversity of new immigrant children in teaching processes. 5.Teachers’ attitude toward new immigrant children in their classrooms includes of following three ways , ‘equity’, ’equality’ and ’care’ .