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Welcoming Newcomer Children

What’s New?

  • Training Participant Guides are NOW available!
  • Judith has a chapter in a new book being launched in January 2012 at Ryerson University –  Immigration and Settlement: Challenges, Experiences, and Opportunities (Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press)
  • News of Welcoming Newcomer Children was posted in the email newsletter of the Childcare Resource and Research Unit (CRRU), December 7, 2011

Who Will Be Interested?   

  • If you have young immigrant and refugee children in your early child care program or classroom,
  • If you are responsible for services for young children and their families,
  • If you want a better understanding of the settlement process,

 Judith‘s book and activities will be of interest to you:

 

 

Welcoming Newcomer Children - Judith A. Colbert

 

 

“Deeper understanding of beliefs and practices … helps build bridges between mainstream and newcomer cultures that support the settlement process.”

 

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The Book

How do you define settlement? What is culture? Why do they matter?

Do young children have distinctive settlement needs?

Is settlement related to school readiness?

Do YOU transmit culture?

 

Welcoming Newcomer Children explores answers to these and other questions related to the settlement of young immigrants and refugees.

 

Welcoming Newcomer Children…

  • Offers a new perspective on child settlement.
  • Draws on international research in various fields.
  • Examines values & beliefs from a Non-Western point of view.
  • Questions accepted practices, priorities & standards.
  • Suggests new strategies for working with children from birth through kindergarten.

Welcoming Newcomer Children is comprehensive…

  • Invites reader reflection with Something to Think About.
  • Supports teachers with v Implications for Practice.
  • Analyses 10 Mainstream Benchmarks of Quality.
  • Proposes 10 Steps to Quality for Newcomers.
  • Is fully referenced with a Bibliography & Index.

 

“For teachers, the aim is … professional practices that sustain program quality and… help newcomer children achieve their settlement goals.”

 

Welcoming Newcomer Children…

  • Presents new ideas and draws on the wisdom of many thinkers and researchers. Here is a sample…

“Human development is a cultural process… people develop as participants in cultural communities. Their development can be understood only in light of the cultural practices and circumstances of their communities – which also change.” Barbara Rogoff

“Coming out of transition and making a new beginning: This is when people develop the new identity, experience the new energy, and discover the new sense of purpose that makes change begin to work.” William Bridges

“Children are likely taught to play in different ways by their mother and in ways valued by the culture in which the mother was reared.” Linda Cote & Marc Bornstein

  • For more thoughts from authors cited in Welcoming Newcomer Children, download WORDS OF WISDOM

Press Release for Welcoming Newcomer Children

The Author

Judith A. Colbert - author of Welcoming Newcomer Children

JUDITH A. Colbert, PhD, is a writer, researcher & training specialist. As a Canadian consultant with an international perspective, her goal is to build bridges between research & practice, mainstream & newcomer experiences.

Much of her work focuses on care for young immigrants & refugees. She is particularly interested in the development of appropriate standards for the delivery of quality care for newcomer populations & in the relationship between the settlement of young children & their successful transition to kindergarten.

HIGHLIGHTS IN SUPPORT OF NEWCOMER CHILDREN

As a consultant to CMAS, an organization that supports child care for newcomer children whose parents are receiving language and settlement services from service provider organizations (SPOs) funded by Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Judith has provided leadership as…

  • Principal author of the National LINC Childminding Requirements (NLCR), which set out criteria for the provision of centre-based care for newcomers in seven provinces across Canada.
  • Developer of an innovative, flexible model of occasional child care (OCC) that provides for the delivery of short-term care, including mobile care, in a number of settings while parents are attending workshops or receiving other services.
  • Principal author of Occasional child Care Requirements (OCCR) as well as an OCC operations manual & handbooks to guide program delivery.

OTHER ACTIVITIES

Judith’s services are varied…

  • As a trainer & workshop leader, Judith crosses national boundaries, making presentations at conferences throughout Canada & the United States … see more.
  • As a researcher & writer, Judith provides clients with training programs, reports & policy documents & has written numerous articles for early childhood professionals on a variety of child care topics… see more.

” …we have to reach an understanding of what ‘settlement’ means – as a process, as an area for study and measurement for researchers and policy makers, and as a personal experience for newcomers.”

Services

Judith offers a variety of services as a speaker, writer and researcher. 

Following presentations in 2011 in Toronto, Mississauga, Kitchener, Pittsburgh and Orlando, and at the United Nations in New York City, Judith is already scheduled to present in Kitchener and Collingwood in Ontario and in Victoria, British Columbia in 2012. Watch for details!

Details about past presentations and articles on newcomer issues appear below. To find out more, email Judith at: info@welcomingchildren.ca

 

 PRESENTATIONS

 

Judith’s presentations on issues related to newcomer children in 2011 included …

  • Meeting the Distinctive Needs of Young Newcomer Children / Newcomer Centre of Peel, Mississauga, ON
  •  How the Settlement Needs of Young Newcomer Children are Changing Practices in the Early Childhood Field / Shifting Ideas, Shifting Practices Symposium / Conestoga College, Kitchener, ON
  •  Immigrant and Refugee Children: Their Distinctive Social and Emotional Needs / OMEP-USA Poster Session / NAEYC Annual Conference and Expo, Orlando, FL
  • Meeting the Distinctive Needs of Newcomer Children in Childminding Settings / LINC Childminding Conference, Toronto, ON
  • Immigrant and Refugee Children: Their Distinctive Needs / Speaker Series, NGO Committee on UNICEF Working Group on Education, UN, New York City
  •  Acculturation in Early Childhood: Supporting the Settlement of Young Newcomers in Early Childhood Settings / Early Learning and Child Care Conference, Conestoga College, Kitchener, ON
  • Settlement in the Early Years: Meeting the Distinctive Needs of Young Newcomer Children in Home Child Care / Region of Waterloo Annual Home Child Care Conference, Kitchener, ON
  • Welcoming Newcomers – Three Big Ideas – Settlement, Culture and Readiness / A Presentation for ORLAC (Ontario Region LINC Advisory Committee), Toronto, ON

 
Presentations in 2010 …

  • History of immigrant child care in Canada: Towards the settlement of Canada’s youngest immigrants and refugees / NAEYC Annual Conference & Expo, Anaheim, CA
  • The settlement of young children: The future of the global city / Migration and the Global City Conference, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON
  • Acculturation: Supporting the settlement of young children in early childhood settings / Annual LINC Childminding Conference, Toronto, ON
  • Settlement in the early years: The distinctive needs of newcomer children / On New Shores Conference, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON
  • Caring for newcomer children, Part I: Distinctive settlement issues; Part II: Quality indicators in early childhood programs / Conference for Early Childhood Educators, Conestoga College, Kitchener, ON

Earlier presentations …

  • The transition of immigrant and refugee children from home to school: Best practices for school readiness and a foundation for future success / On New Shores Conference, University of Guelph, October 2007, Guelph, ON
  • Young immigrant children in transition: Best practices / Best Start Annual Conference, February 2008, Toronto, ON
  • Role of early childhood experience in easing the transition of immigrant and refugee children from home to school – Best practices / 8th Head Start Research Conference, June 2006, Washington, DC [Poster Presentation]
  • Children in transition: Immigrant and refugee children in early childhood settings / Conference for Early Childhood Educators, Conestoga College, March 2006, Kitchener, ON
  • Transition to school issues: Teacher, parent, child perspectives / NAEYC Annual Conference & Expo, December 2005, Washington, DC [co-presenter]

 

ARTICLES


Judith’s articles/chapters on topics related to newcomer children include …

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Welcoming Newcomer Children will give you…

  • A new way of thinking about newcomer children and their families.
  • A new way of looking at professional practice.
  • A new focus for service delivery.
  • Practical, research-based ideas you can use everyday .

ORDER NOW!

  • 203 pages, 6″ x 9″, includes references, bibliography, and index
  • $29.95 (Canadian currency) / Applicable taxes and shipping extra

The training Participant Guides – Meeting the Needs of Young Immigrant and Refugee Children in Early Childhood and Primary Classrooms OR Meeting the Needs of Young Immigrant and Refugee Children in Home Child Care Settings –

  • Are easy to read, easy to use, and easy to adapt
  • Can be used as ready-made handouts for classroom training
  • May be a tool for self-study based on Welcoming Newcomer Children

ORDER NOW!

  • 20 pages each plus a soft cover, 8.5″ x 11,” includes spaces for participant comments and a concluding quiz
  • $10.00 each (Canadian currency) / Applicable taxes and shipping extra

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OR CALL TOLL-FREE 1-888-571-2665

For more information about ordering please email Judith at:

info@welcomingchildren.ca

Media

26 OCTOBER 2010

Announcing Welcoming Newcomer Children – a New Book on the Settlement of Young Immigrants and Refugees

 

Do you have young immigrant and refugee children in your early child care program or classroom? Are you responsible for services for young children and their families? Do you want a better understanding of the settlement process? If so, a new book by Judith Colbert will be of value to you.

Under the title, Welcoming Newcomer Children: The Settlement of Young Immigrants and Refugees, Colbert explores settlement from the perspective of the child. Although primarily directed to readers with an interest in supporting young newcomers from birth through age 8, much of the information is also relevant to older children.

Colbert is familiar with the issues. As a writer, researcher and training specialist, much of her work focuses on newcomer children. For example, she is principal author of Canada’s National LINC Childminding Requirements and took the lead in developing an innovative new program of occasional childcare for newcomers funded in Ontario by Citizenship and Immigration Canada.  “As an early care and education consultant” Colbert says, “I try to take an international approach. I wrote Welcoming Newcomer Children to achieve my long-time goal of building bridges between research and practice, mainstream and newcomer experiences.”

At the outset, Colbert establishes that young children experience settlement much as adults do, and sets out a definition that echoes throughout Welcoming Newcomer Children. Early on, she also considers the distinctive settlement needs of young children and the relationship between culture and settlement. In exploring cultural transmission by parents, teachers and peers, she invites the reader to examine his or her own role in the settlement process. Finally, focusing specifically on school readiness as the major settlement challenge for young children, Colbert calls for a re-examination of benchmarks of program quality in light of barriers experienced by newcomers.

Welcoming Newcomer Children offers a new perspective on child settlement. It draws on international research in various fields to examine values and beliefs from both Western and Non-Western points of view. It questions accepted practices, priorities and standards, and suggests new strategies for working with young children.

Welcoming Newcomer Children is a comprehensive resource. It invites reader reflection with a recurring feature entitled “Something to Think About” and supports teachers and caregivers with discussions of hands-on situations under the heading “Implications for Practice.” It concludes an analysis of 10 Mainstream Benchmarks of Quality and proposes 10 Steps to Quality for Newcomers. It is fully referenced with a bibliography and index.

For more information and to order, go to www.welcomingchildren.ca

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Download a PDF press release for Welcoming Newcomer Children here:

Press Release for Welcoming Newcomer Children

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about the author

Judith A. Colbert, PhD, is a writer, researcher and training specialist. She is principal author of Canada’s National LINC Childminding Requirements. As an early care and education consultant with an international perspective, her goal is to build bridges between research and practice, mainstream and newcomer experiences.