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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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
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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