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Coping with adaptation after mass trauma: Developing a culturally sensitive, school-based, curriculum for Somali children
Abstract
Immigrant children who experienced mass trauma are likely to experience deep emotional and psychological issues. These issues affect their development and adjustment. It is compounded when they are relocated to another culture especially significantly dissimilar to theirs. The Somali immigrant children who experienced mass trauma bring with them complex traumatic and adaptation issues. These emotional and psychological issues will affect their total development at school, family, and community settings if not adequately addressed. Therefore the purpose of this study is to explore how indigenous Somali cultural knowledge could be used to develop a culturally sensitive school based curriculum to ameliorate the socio-emotional issues of these children. Using a qualitative research approach, immigrant adult Somalis' cultural knowledge will be investigated to learn how they conceptualize trauma or life threatening experiences and their cultural knowledge on healing and coping that could be integrated to develop a culturally sensitive curriculum.
Subject Area
Educational sociology|Multicultural Education|Educational psychology|Developmental psychology|Curriculum development
Recommended Citation
Koroma, Sorie, "Coping with adaptation after mass trauma: Developing a culturally sensitive, school-based, curriculum for Somali children" (2011). Doctoral Dissertations Available from Proquest. AAI3465030.
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3465030