Focus on Research Lecture Series
Education Experiences of Canadian High School Students with Immigrant and Refugee Backgrounds: Perspectives of the stakeholders from students and families from independent post-Soviet countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan,
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We are pleased to invite you to our online Focus on Research lecture series for 2024-5. All OISE community members are welcome to attend.
Educational experiences of immigrant and refugee children in the Global North have become vital to research, policy and classroom practices in fields such as immigration, diversity, peace and conflict studies, and comparative and international education. While Canadian engagement with challenges, including educational ones, of immigrants and refugees has also included newcomers from post-Soviet countries, there is scant research on the experiences of this diverse and fast-growing population. Professor Sarfaroz Niyozov and co-investigators Dr. Stephen Bahry and Dr. Max Antony-Newman will discuss this SSHRC-funded study, reflecting on students’, parents’ and teachers' perspectives on challenges and opportunities they face and envisage during their learning, teaching, and parenting.
About the Speakers
Professor Sarfaroz Niyozov
Professor Niyozov (aka Niezov) is an Associate Professor in Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at OISE. He has worked, taught and conducted research in Tajikistan, Pakistan, UK, and Canada. He is the author of more than 70 publications about education in post-Soviet countries, educational reform in developing countries, policy borrowing and lending, and the experiences of teachers working with refugee and immigrant students in Canadian multicultural classrooms.
Dr. Stephen Bahry
Dr. Stephen Bahry has lectured at OISE, University of Toronto, and in Kazakhstan on teacher development, culture and teaching, comparative education research; teaching second/foreign languages; and on multilingual and plurilingual education. He examines challenges for quality education for immigrant and refugee youth in the Greater Toronto Area, focusing on language(s) used at home and school, and the need for multilingual and plurilingual education in Central Eurasia.
Dr. Max Antony-Newman
Dr. Max Antony-Newman is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Education at the University of Glasgow. Working from a critical sociological perspective, he studies school-family partnerships, education policy, and teacher education with the overarching goal of moving from parent engagement as a source of social inequality to an opportunity for social justice. His work also centers immigrant and refugee students and linguistic minorities in diverse classrooms.