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45.068 - Supporting Refugee Students in the "Post-Truth" Era: The Role of Teachers in Resettlement Contexts

Sun, April 7, 9:55 to 11:25am, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Floor: 700 Level, Room 715A

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In resettlement contexts, schooling can provide a sense of stability for refugee students, while helping them adapt to their new surroundings. Scholars have suggested that education plays a significant role in shaping how refugees adapt to and identify with their new host society. Teachers, in particular, provide a consistent presence in the lives of their students, helping newcomers adapt to classrooms through cultural and institutional navigation. This symposium examines how teachers navigate the current social and political climate in the United States to support culturally and linguistically diverse refugee students in four different educational contexts. Together, the four papers examine teachers’ beliefs about language, immigration, and culture, and their implications for refugee students in the United States.

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