In the school system, foreign pupil feels heavily the effect of parent's culture beginning from the language. The migration experience causes sudden changes to the families and their children (second generation children and children born in the destination place).

18.02.15

Making contact with a refugee parent

This workshop is designed for migrant parents in a special situation. His workshop was done with refugee parents. Their situation of residence is unstable, they live in a refugee camps waiting for a special status which help them to start to build more stabel future. It cause some specific problems with integration ...

20.02.15

Self-produced booklets by migrant parents about their own educational background

The migrant parents’ experiences and history about their own educational background are the basis for telling and writing about the Danish school system and its pedagogical background.

18.02.15

Parent networks

Migrant parents are definitely prepared to enlarge chances for their children to a better future. They experience ever so often their efforts to fail. Attention and support for their efforts is more than necessary. There is a strong need for extra information about children’s development and education. Specially abo...

18.02.15

Communicating and sharing through stories

Communicating itself implies having already something in common as a basis for reaching the goal of understanding. Some overlap between different life horizons is as much a prerequisite and an instrument as the product of communication. Moreover, in order to cope with value conflict, a minimal consensus has to be b...

18.02.15

Action team

Building bridges between home and school by “The six types of involvement”: The Action Team as a first step directing to the programs of school, family, and community partnerships

Theory