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One of the goals of the course Immigration, Language, and Class is to provide teachers with a multicultural perspective in education. Discussions around immigration and its impact on the education of culturally diverse students is a major theme of investigation. This project provides teachers with the opportunity to introduce to their students the use of video or audio recordings as a tool to document family stories around relocation, language and culture.
I was curious about how first generation children could learn from interviewing thier parents or a immigrant family member. One of the dirving questions that lead me to this topic was: How much of an impact does language have in making the decison to relocate? What patterns if any, among new arrivals transcend child's identity? How is home language valued and passed on to first and second generation family members? How much of home language remains private and how much goes public? and why?
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