Migration and Education in a Multicultural World: Culture, Loss, and Identity [Paperback]

Arising from the legacies of the twentieth century - unprecedented worldwide migration, unrelenting global conflict and warring, unchecked materialist consumption, and unconscionable environmental degradation - are important questions about the toll of loss such changes exact, individually and collectively. As large-scale and ubiquitous as these changes are, their deep specificity re-inscribes the importance of place as a critical construct. Attending to such specificity emphasizes the interconnections between contexts and broader movements and remains a prudent route to articulating critical interconnections among places and peoples in complex times. This book of essays turns to such specificity as a means to examine the inflections of migration on identity- displacement, disorientation, loss, and difference- as sites of both regression and possibility. Fusing autobiography and cultural analysis, it provides a framework for a critical education attuned to such concerns.Towards an Educational Discourse of Loss and Place Losing Place: Reluctant Leavings and Ambivalent Returns Writing 'The Distance Home': Migration, Mourning and Difference in Lawrence O'Toole's Heart's Longing The Word, For Loss:? Literacy, Longing and Belonging in Kevin Major's Ann and Seamus The Place of Reparation:? Loss, Ambivalence and Teaching Separation, (Re)connection and a Transformative Education of Place Loss, Place, and Education

As one of the key thinkers within education in Canada today, Kelly offers a profoundly disturbing and yet surprisingly hopeful cultural reading on loss and migration in Newfoundland and Labrador - disturbing for what it says about loss and identity, and yet hopeful because there can be writers with Kelly's depth of analysis. - Claudia Mitchell, James McGill Professor, McGill University

This is a highly original, timely book that explores issues of personal and collective loss and grief and reveals how they relate to identity and sociallãe