Getnet Bitew

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Ethiopian-Australian Secondary School Students¿ Experiences

An Investigation of Ethiopian and Ethio-Australian Secondary School Students¿ School Experiences in Melbourne

Beschreibung

This thesis was aimed at exploring the secondary school experiences of Ethio-Australian students in Melbourne. It examined the different school activities in which the students were participating & how these school activities matched the students needs & previous background. It also attempted to compare the students' school experiences in selected Australian & Ethiopian schools. A qualitative methodology, using interviews, observation & document analysis as data collection tools, was employed. As an Ethiopian sharing the participants previous life experiences & as a researcher watching, listening & participating with them & including my own voice, I used a postcritical ethnographic approach. Secondary school students, their teachers & parents acted as informants for the study. A total of fifty nine participants were interviewed. The interview data were transcribed & coded. A combination of narrative & thematic analysis was used. Several constructs emerged out of the data which included the identity factors & exclusionary forces that contributed to students secondary school experiences when they relocated between schools & countries.

Autor

Dr Bitew has PhDs in Education from Innsbruck & Melbourne Universities; MA in Curriculum & Instruction & BA in Pedagogical Sciences. He has been an assistant professor in Ethiopia, a Visiting Research Fellow in the USA & a Guest Researcher at Umeå University. He published several articles on educational technology & immigrants¿ schooling.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9783838320465
• ISBN-10: 3838320468
• Artikelnr.: 27876090