(Re)Defining Home: A Critical View Toward Successful Integration of Migrant Children and Families Within Manitoba's Kindergarten to Grade 12 Education System

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session 2
  In Roundtable Session: Building on Students' Funds of Knowledge in the Classroom

Abstract

This qualitative study built an understanding of how selected African migrant children and their families within the Manitoba K-12 educational system articulate their ideas of home with regards to their sense of identity, perception of belonging, and emotional relations. The author used interviews, observations, and photovoice to collect data and to learn about the experiences of the participants, particularly about how they understand their ideas of home. This research provided an important opportunity for the voices of African immigrant children and their families to be added to the literature, as it encourages them to share their often unheard and untold stories.

Author

• Ayodeji Tolulope Osiname, Brandon University