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This Section includes resources that relate to Language and Education Policy. We would like to thank Gulnigar Baham and Anastasia Maniatis from OISE for preparing resources on this theme.
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This online resource is a monograph which offers a framework for reflecting on current practice and taking a whole-school approach to the successful integration of students with refugee backgrounds in the school community.
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This resource is a practical guide for Ontario teachers (grades 3-12) pertaining to teaching ELL students with limited prior schooling.
Reference: Ontario Ministry of Education. (2008) Supporting English Language Learners with limited prior schooling: A practical guide for Ontario educators Grade 3 to 12. Queen’s Printer for Ontario.
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This resource is a manual that includes policies and procedures for ELL students in the ESL and ELD programs (K-12)
Reference: Ontario Ministry of Education. (2007). Supporting English Language Learners - ESL and ELD services: Policies and procedures for Ontario elementary and secondary schools, Kindergarten to Grade 12. Queen’s Printer for Ontario.
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This resource aims to provide, based on previous research, helpful information and strategies to Canadian teachers who have refugee students in their classrooms.
Reference: Social sciences and humanities research council of Canada (2017). Supporting Refugee Students in Canadian Classrooms. What Works Monograph.
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This resource is a paper which discusses how current educational policies are including refugee students in a positive manner and suggests areas for policy improvement.
Reference: Courtney A. Brewer (2016). An outline for including refugees in Canadian educational policy. Canadian Journal for New Scholars in Education, 7(1), 133-141.
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This resource provides useful information and strategies to teachers and other school personnel to support students of a refugee background.
*Appendix A explains Immigration Policy and Legislation.
Reference: British Columbia Ministry of Education. (2015). Students from Refugee Backgrounds. A Guide for Teachers and Schools. Victoria, BC: Queen’s Printer for British Columbia.
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This online resource from TDSB provides guidelines for admitting students who are without immigration status. (e.g., it lists the accepted verification documents)
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This resource is in French, and it supports teachers working in a multi-ethnic and multilingual environment.
reference: ELODIL, Éveil au Langage et Ouverture à la Diversité Linguistique.
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This youtube resource by Mike Mena gives an accessible and bite-sized explanation of Flores and Rosa’s “Undoing Appropriateness: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and Language Diversity in Education”, While not specifically about refugee students, it delves into the “white listener subject” that is systematically inherent in language education and policies at the micro, meso, and macro levels.
Reference: Flores, N., & Rosa, J. (2015). Undoing appropriateness: Raciolinguistic ideologies and language diversity in education. Harvard Educational Review, 85( 2): 149– 71. Retrieved from https://hepgjournals-org.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/doi/pdf/10.17763/0017-8055.85.2.149
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