Author: Ashley Erin Niemeyer
Publisher:
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Category : Academic achievement
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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One out of every eight people in the United States is of Hispanic origin, and this population continues to grow. Hispanic children are at risk for lower academic achievement, problem behaviors, and various environmental risk factors, such as poverty. This study examined academic resilience in at-risk Hispanic adolescents. Specifically, the effects of parental involvement, acculturation, and familismo on academic resilience were examined. Among Hispanic students, a certain type of parental involvement, labeled Hispanic parental involvement, was positively related to academic performance. Additionally, the positive effects of familismo on academic competence were fully mediated by parental involvement. There were no significant differences between Hispanic students' and Caucasian students' overall ratings of academic parental involvement. When compared to Caucasian students, however, Hispamc students rated their parents as being more involved at home than at school. The implications of the findings on the understanding of academic performance of Hispanic students are discussed.
Author: Alexander Jun
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415932363
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: María Jesus Alvarez
Publisher:
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Category : Academic achievement
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Author: Erik E. Morales
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 0761852719
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 101
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"Over the course of ten years, this extensive qualitative study focused on the academic resilience phenomenon. The research delves into the educational resilience experiences of fifty low socioeconomic students of color from a variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds. In addition to chronicling specific protective factors and processes active in the students' lives, several symbiotic relationships between groups of protective factors are documented and explored. A Resilience Cycle theory, which was chronicled in previous works of the authors, is used as a framework to view essential elements of the students' academic success. Ultimately, the data and findings are used to propose practical suggestions for promoting academic resilience in at-risk youth nationwide. Furthermore, because one author specializes in education and the other in psychology, both of these disciplines are brought to bear on this crucial and understudied topic." -- from back cover.
Author: Aida A. Ismael-Lennon
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Author: Erik E. Morales
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9780820467634
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Promoting Academic Resilience in Multicultural America combines biographical sketches of resilient students, examples of effective programs designed to encourage resilience, recent research in the field, and their own experiences of resilient academics of color. The book illustrates exactly how academic success occurs within traditionally challenged learning environments. The authors focus most closely on the crucial transition between high school and college. The individuals spotlighted and programs outlined cross racial, gender, socioeconomic, and ethnic lines, and include African American, Hispanic, and white students. In part, the authors conclude that there are specific multidimensional protective factors that work collaboratively to enable the success of these exceptional students. It is the detailed exploration of these phenomena that lie at the heart of this work and that has the potential to help all children excel. Among other uses, this book could be a valuable addition to a college freshmen seminar series, a foundations of education course, a course on multiculturalism in America and/or any course focused on basic educational psychology.
Author: Anne I. Knezevic
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This qualitative study explores how Mexican immigrant males of the New Latino Diaspora develop academic resilience that helps them to graduate from high school, ready for the next phase in their lives. Research questions include: What is academic resilience and how is it manifested? What conditions support emergence of resilience? Do families, culture, schools, and local communities help students build academic resilience? If so, how do they influence its development? How does the "macro" socio-economic and political context in which students and families live, on both sides of the border, affect the development of academic resilience? What can educators and schools do to promote academic resilience in all students? Why focus on this demographic? As a high school ESL and Spanish teacher, Latino boys-specifically, Mexican-immigrant youth, caught my attention because they are statistically less likely to graduate, yet similarly, at school, there were examples of Latino students who bucked national trends; they were able to "beat the odds" and earn a high school diploma. Who are these scholars and how did they overcome their challenges and develop academic resilience needed to graduate from high school? Their stories and that question are at the heart of the semi-structured interviews conducted for this study. It is at the intersection of three groups; students, parents and educators meeting through shared experiences at a public high school, that this project unfolds. Using "counter storytelling" and "portraiture," this work examines resilience that many students and families show despite significant challenges and cultural dislocation. Observing this phenomenon led me to wonder how, as educators, we can create conditions to support greater academic resilience not only in our Mexican immigrant young men, but for all youth. Strategies and recommendations toward this goal close this study.
Author: Ashley E. Niemeyer
Publisher:
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Author: Amanda M. Strickland
Publisher:
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Category : Academic achievement
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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Author: Susan J. Paik
Publisher: IAP
ISBN: 1648020127
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 295
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High-Achieving Latino Students: Successful Pathways Toward College and Beyond addresses a long-standing need for a book that focuses on the success, not failure, of Latino students. While much of the existing research works from a deficit lens, this book uses a strength-based approach to support Latino achievement. Bringing together researchers and practitioners, this unique book provides research-based recommendations from early to later school years on “what works” for supporting high achievement. Praise for High-Achieving Latino Students "This book focuses on an important issue about which we know little. There are many lessons here for both scholars and educators who believe that Latino students can succeed. I congratulate the authors for taking on this timely and significant topic." ~ Guadalupe Valdés, Ph.D., Bonnie Katz Tenenbaum Professor in Education, Stanford University. Author of Con Respeto: Bridging the Distances Between Culturally Diverse Families and Schools "This is a must-read book for leaders in institutions of both K-12 and higher education who want to better understand success factors of Latino students in the US. Using a strength-based framework to understand and support Latino achievement is a new paradigm that must be considered by all." ~ Loui Olivas, Ed.D., President, American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education "In addition to being the right book at the right time, these editors should be congratulated for giving us a stellar example of how a research-practice collaboration comes together to produce such a valuable and lasting contribution to the field of school reform and improvement. Those who work in schools, universities, think tanks and policymaking centers have been waiting anxiously for this kind of book, and it’s now here." ~ Carl A. Cohn, Ed.D., Former Executive Director, California Collaborative for Educational Excellence, CA State Board of Education member, and Superintendent "There may not be a silver bullet for solving the so-called problem of Latino underachievement, but well-conceived solutions do exist. This powerful book offers strength- and asset-based frameworks that demonstrate Latino achievement is possible. Read this text to not only get informed, but to also get nurtured and inspired!" ~ Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D., Professor in Education, University of Texas at Austin. Author of Subtractive Schooling: US-Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring
