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Book Cross cultural Family Environments of High Academic Achievers

Download or read book Cross cultural Family Environments of High Academic Achievers written by Maria Kotsaka Kratsios and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research breaks new ground in identifying cross-culturally common family environment traits that correlate with children's high academic achievement. A multi- method approach involving both qualitative and well established, validated quantitative research methods was employed to measure the home environment from a social and educational perspective. The modified What is Happening in this Classroom (WIHIC) instrument questionnaire was used to determine if academically successful students and their parents hold similar perceptions of their home environment as an educational environment. The Family Environment Scale (FES) instrument questionnaire was used to measure family social environment for comparison to whole population norms and to identify common behavioral traits among the studied groups. The sample consisted of 180 academically high achieving adolescents and their families from the United States, Japan, and Greece. In addition to its cultural diversity, the study group was widely varied in lifestyle, being drawn from urban, suburban, and rural areas. Interviews conducted by the researcher at the homes of the participants were used to complement the quantitative data and contributed to further understanding of the cultural, social, and ethnic factors that influence home environment. The study identified and describes crossculturally common behavioral traits among the families of academically high achieving students that transcended culture, language, economic status, and geographic location.

Book Family and Human Development Across Cultures

Download or read book Family and Human Development Across Cultures written by Cigdem Kagitibasi and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The culmination of 15 years of research by a Turkish psychologist who was educated in the West, this volume examines both the theoretical and practical aspects of cross-cultural psychology. It takes a contextual-developmental-functional approach linking the child, family, and society as they are embedded in culture. A refreshingly different view, the author presents a portrait of human development from "the other side"--from the perspective of the "majority world." In a world seemingly dominated by American psychology, she proposes the cross-cultural orientation as a corrective to the culture-boundedness of much of Euro-American psychology. Analyzing human development in context while avoiding the pitfalls of extreme relativism, this work studies development with an inclusive, holistic, and ecological perspective, focusing on the development of the self and of competence. In so doing, it also attempts to combine cultural contextualism with universalistic standards and psychological processes. It proposes a theory of family change which challenges some commonly held modernization assumptions, and links theory and application while examining the role of psychology in inducing social change.

Book Families and their Learning Environments

Download or read book Families and their Learning Environments written by Kevin Marjoribanks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1979, this study is one of the first works of educational research to include detailed assessments of family environments in an analysis of performance of children at their schools. Much of the research is based on data collected from families in Australia, Canada and England and the findings have been integrated with results from other family environments research. The study also explores social and psychological conceptual positions that will have relevance for further educational investigations. This book will be of particular interest to those studying the relationship between family environments and education, as well as the sociology of education.

Book Resources in Education

Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1999-10 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Encyclopedia of Cross Cultural School Psychology

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Cross Cultural School Psychology written by Caroline S. Clauss-Ehlers and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-02-18 with total page 1097 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With contributions from leading school psychology practitioners, this encyclopedia provides a one-of-a-kind guide to cross-cultural school psychology. Some 400 entries explore concepts, themes, and the latest research findings to answer your questions in all aspects of the field. Moreover, the encyclopedia offers support at all levels of primary and secondary education, from pre-K to 12th grade. Each entry offers a description of a particular term, a bibliography, and additional readings. The editor is widely known for her bi-weekly Spanish-language columns and her appearances on television and radio as a cross-cultural expert.

Book Bibliography on Racism  1972 1975

Download or read book Bibliography on Racism 1972 1975 written by Center for Minority Group Mental Health Programs (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cross Cultural Roots of Minority Child Development

Download or read book Cross Cultural Roots of Minority Child Development written by Patricia M. Greenfield and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cross-Cultural Roots of Minority Child Development was the first volume to analyze minority child development by comparing minority children to children in their ancestral countries, rather than to children in the host culture. It was a ground-breaking volume that not only offered an historical reconstruction of the cross-cultural roots of minority child development, but a new cultural-historical approach to developmental psychology as well. It was also one of the best attempts to develop guidelines for building models of development that are multicultural in perspective, thus challenging scholars across the behavioral sciences to give more credence to the impact of culture on development and socialization in their respective fields of work. A true classic, Cross-Cultural Roots of Minority Child Development will remain an essential resource for any scholar who is interested in minority child development and engages in cross-cultural research and multidisciplinary methodologies.

Book Hispanic Mental Health Research

Download or read book Hispanic Mental Health Research written by Frank Cota-Robles Newton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Counseling With Immigrants  Refugees  and Their Families From Social Justice Perspectives

Download or read book Counseling With Immigrants Refugees and Their Families From Social Justice Perspectives written by Patricia Arredondo and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immigrants and refugees continue to make enormous contributions to the economic, educational, and cultural richness of the U.S. They plan for and manage multiple changes to achieve goals for themselves and their families, and in the process, give back to the U.S. This book provides insight for counselors working with immigrants and refugees and their families across the lifespan. Social justice and multicultural counseling competency frameworks ground this text, which is intended for counselors working in academic settings, conducting research, and practicing in different contexts. Because immigrants and refugees have various cultural heritages, immigration journeys, reasons for migrating, and presenting situations, counselors must be prepared to engage with individuals and families as unique clients. Descriptions of these contextual factors, including data and legislation, are included. This book will guide counselors in recognizing the additional steps they may need to take to account for culture, language, health status, relationships in place, and of course the priority issues (i.e., child’s illness and/or school bullying) to be dealt with. Additionally, counselors will learn about the rationale for migration as well as the concentration camps that may be “home” to refugees for an indeterminate time. Counselors will read about losses that affect immigrant and refugee clients and how these “naturally” contribute to sadness, depression, anger, and self-isolation. To purchase print copies, please visit the ACA Store. Reproduction requests for material from books published by ACA or any other questions about ACA Publications should be directed to [email protected]. ACA no longer provides complimentary print desk copies. Digital evaluation copies may be requested from Wiley by clicking the link above and completing the details about your institution and course.

Book The Palgrave Handbook of Race and Ethnic Inequalities in Education

Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Race and Ethnic Inequalities in Education written by P. Stevens and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-01-22 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive, state-of-the-art reference work provides the first systematic review to date of how sociologists have studied the relationship between race/ethnicity and educational inequality over the last thirty years in eighteen different national contexts.

Book Paths to Achievement

Download or read book Paths to Achievement written by Chuansheng Chen and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities

Download or read book The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities written by Mary Romero and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities is afirst-rate collection of social science scholarship oninequalities, emphasizing race, ethnicity, class, gender,sexuality, age, and nationality. Highlights themes that represent the scope and range oftheoretical orientations, contemporary emphases, and emergingtopics in the field of social inequalities. Gives special attention to debates in the field, developingtrends and directions, and interdisciplinary influences in thestudy of social inequalities. Includes an editorial introduction and suggestions for furtherreading.

Book International encyclopedia of adolescence

Download or read book International encyclopedia of adolescence written by Jeffrey Jensen Arnett and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2007 with total page 1214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Book The Palgrave Handbook of Race and Ethnic Inequalities in Education

Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Race and Ethnic Inequalities in Education written by Peter A.J. Stevens and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-05 with total page 1318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative, state-of-the-art reference work builds on its first edition to provide a cutting-edge systematic review of the relationship between race/ethnicity and educational inequality. Studying 25 different national contexts drawn from every inhabited continent on earth and building upon material from the earlier edition, the work analyses educational policies, practices and research on minority students, immigrants and refugees. The editors and contributors explore principal research traditions from countries as diverse as Argentina, China, Norway and South Africa, examining the factors promoting social cohesion as well as considerations regarding the use of international test score data. Seamlessly integrating findings of national reviews, the editors and contributors analyse how national contexts of race/ethnic relations shape the character and content of educational inequalities, and deftly map out new directions for future research in the area. Global in its perspective and definitive in content, this one-stop volume will be an indispensable reference resource for a wide range of academics, students and researchers in the fields of education, sociology, race and ethnicity studies and social policy. Chapter 20 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at SpringerLink (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-94724-2_20)

Book Excellence in Scholarship

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  • Author : Sivakumar Alagumalai
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2013-09-03
  • ISBN : 9462092575
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Excellence in Scholarship written by Sivakumar Alagumalai and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teachers empower both the next generation of learners and educators. Communities value the intricate roles and responsibilities of teachers: many of whom who go beyond the tangibles to cater to the learning needs of their students. The multidimensional and multifaceted relationship between teacher-education providers and teachers is a complex one. At one end of the spectrum sits the scholarship of teaching while at the enacted zone sits standards-based praxis. Teacher education and scholarship of teaching provides the avenue to demonstrate this interaction of knowledge, pedagogy, research and broadly, scholarship. Unfortunately, there is no strong consensus about the value of pedagogical preparation for teachers. This monograph highlights the broad focus on how education draws its knowledge base from various disciplines; advancing that education itself can become a plethora for shared discourse and reflection. The chapters provide fresh demonstrated understanding into practice-enabled research directions and emphasise the position of research-based praxis in both schools and in institutions entrusted with teacher education. Importantly, the monograph demonstrates the two-way communication between the community and teacher educators about knowledge, experiences, values and diversity and to add value with the sole aim to enhance learning. It highlights education is a collective endeavour in that education and teacher education are subsets of the community, and deliberations in communities add important synergy to education’s evolution and revolution. Thus, the process of inquiry is fundamental in education, and implies transcending traditional discipline-bound knowledge and processes. This monograph provides the challenge to educators that no single or specific discipline directs educational development and enrichment, nor does the latter exclude any.