Resiliency and success : migrant children in the United States
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Resiliency and success : migrant children in the United States
Paradigm Publishers, c2004
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Resiliency and success : migrant children in the U.S
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-167) and index
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Description
This book elucidates the amazing life journeys of academically successful migrant students. Offering vivid case studies of successful students, this book helps teachers, education students, and researchers understand the factors that lead to success by minority language children. The authors develop the lessons of student success stories into recommendations for schools and for educational policy. Readers gain from this book the stories of real students, the challenges they faced, and the means by which students and schools may overcome language and cultural barriers to educational success.
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 The Immigration Experience and Resiliency of Mexican Families in the United States
- Chapter 2 Migrant Farm Workers and Their Children
- Chapter 3 The Struggles of the Migrant Lifestyle
- Chapter 4 The Family-Support and Influence
- Chapter 5 The School
- Chapter 6 The Mentors-Environmental Resources
- Chapter 7 The Present-Success Against All Odds
- Chapter 8 Analysis of Central Research Questions
- Chapter 9 Lessons Learned About Critical Ethnography and Pedagogy
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