Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Digital Empowerment for Refugee and Migrant Learners

Applying Strengths-Based Practice to Adult Education

Av Ekaterina Tour, Edwin Creely, Peter Waterhouse, Michael Henderson

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This edited collection focuses on digital empowerment for displaced people from migrant and refugee backgrounds, exploring the intersections of digital technologies, settlement, education, and global migration. This book adopts a strengths-based and inclusive approach to understand what digital empowerment means and how it can be applied in a range of community and educational settings.The ten chapters bring attention to the need for innovative approaches and educational strategies that promote digital empowerment for people from refugee and migrant backgrounds, with application to finding employment, furthering education, building community, and accessing social support services. The text also considers what is necessary for effective digital empowerment, highlighting how existing personal resources can be utilised, in conjunction with technologies, to build capacity, enhance community networks, and preserve cultural connections. By adopting a strengths-based perspective, the writers highlight how challenges can be transformed into opportunities. Through conceptual understandings, grounded examples, and case studies, each chapter offers clear and actionable takeaways for policy, practice, and research.Based on cutting-edge theory, this is an essential read for social and educational researchers, teacher educators and their students, policy makers, and educational practitioners.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum: 2025-03-18
Mått: 156 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt: 530 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 188
Förlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN: 9781032728674

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Ekaterina Tour is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash University. Her research focuses on the digital literacies of learners from refugee and migrant backgrounds and has examined teaching and learning with technologies, digital multimodal composing, generative AI, and technology use in culturally and linguistically diverse communities.Edwin Creely is Senior Lecturer at Monash University specialising in digital literacy, creativity, and technology in education. His research focuses on qualitative inquiry, literacy practices, critical discourse analysis, and educational innovation with technology. He is an accomplished educator and researcher with a strong commitment to fostering creative and critical thinking in education.Peter Waterhouse is Lecturer in the School of Education Culture and Society in the Faculty of Education at Monash University. He has diverse research interests in adult learning and literacies, digital literacies, and the nature of reflexive practice and experiential learning.Michael Henderson is Professor of Digital Futures and Director of the Hub for Educational Design and Innovation in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia. His research focuses on the intersection of digital technologies and education, with a particular interest in the risks and opportunities for learning and equity.

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