A HEAD-START TUTORING PROGRAM FOR IMMIGRANT PRESCHOOLERS: THE CASE OF ETHIOPIANS IN ISRAEL
A HEAD-START TUTORING PROGRAM FOR IMMIGRANT PRESCHOOLERS: THE CASE OF ETHIOPIANS IN ISRAEL

Summary/Abstract: This article describes the development and implementation of an intervention program for at-risk pre-school children from an immigrant community. The program presents a preventive curriculum which aims to reduce some of the risk-factors experienced by such populations when they encounter a western-oriented school in the dominant culture. The intervention is a head-start program intended to be carried out in the child’s home before official kindergarten. This is a tutoring program which recruits high-school students from the same community and trains them to work with the young children in a process of mediating language and literacy activities in the dominant language.

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