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Children’s Home Languages in Early Childhood Education Systems

Handicap or Asset? A Comparative Study of Parents’ and Teachers’ Attitudes

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Education, Dominance and Identity

Part of the book series: Comparative and International Education ((CIEDV,volume 1))

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The question of how to deal with minority children whose families have recently migrated has been central in scientific and political debates in Germany and France since the beginning of the first ‘guest workers’ immigration after the Second World War and following the independence of some French colonies in the 1950s and 1960s (Mecheril, 2004).

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  1. University of Bielefeld, Germany

    Nathalie Thomauske

  2. University of Paris 13, France

    Nathalie Thomauske

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  1. University of Georgia, Athens, USA

    Diane B. Napier

  2. The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada

    Suzanne Majhanovich

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Thomauske, N. (2013). Children’s Home Languages in Early Childhood Education Systems. In: Napier, D.B., Majhanovich, S. (eds) Education, Dominance and Identity. Comparative and International Education, vol 1. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-125-2_6

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