Kriselle Suson

University of Iceland | HI · Faculty of Education Studies

The aim of this qualitative study is to explore how staff at three Icelandic universities attend to the needs of students of immigrant background. The theoretical background includes critical multicultural studies which focus on analysing the position of minority groups in societies and education from a critical perspective [Parekh 2006 Parekh, B....

Due to increased migration in recent decades, universities must adapt their practices to meet the needs of a changing student body. Many immigrant students desire to complete their studies at universities, yet factors such as language of communication and cultural traditions limit their possibilities. This paper comes out of a study titled Educatio...

This paper documents and analyzes immigrant parents’ ten-year-long plurilingual practice with their children, and opportunities they created for them inside and outside of the home to promote their language repertoires; it further documents the parents´ values and language competencies. The language repertoire is here understood as a sum of all lan...

Icelandic schools are faced with increasing levels of linguistic diversity on account of the growing number of students being brought up with more than one language. Schools and parents are encouraged to foster active bilingualism among children with mother tongues other than Icelandic (Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture 2014a). The purpos...

Í kjölfar aukinna fólksf lutninga síðustu áratugi hefur innf lytjendum fjölgað í háskólum á Íslandi. Þessi grein er byggð á niðurstöðum rannsóknarverkefnisins Væntingar og tækifæri innf lytjenda á Íslandi til háskólamenntunar og áskoranir henni tengdar (2016-2018) sem styrkt er af Rannís. Meginmarkmið rannsóknarverkefnisins er að öðlast skilning á...