Download or read book School factors that promote academic resilience in urban Latino high school students written by Christine M. Fallon and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Here to University written by Alexander Jun and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Boys in the Hood written by Patrick B. Booker and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Concrete Roses written by Daisy Denise Alfaro and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focuses on the academic resilience exhibited by urban, low-income, first college generation Latino students, as they navigated numerous risk factors and persisted from early education to law school. In order to uncover the protective factors that allowed resilient Latino students to overcome adversity within the K-20 educational pipeline, this study used academic resilience as a theoretical framework. Methodologically, a two-phase, qualitative longitudinal study (Creswell, 2007, 2009; Merriam, 2009) was used to capture the intricate experiences of nine academically resilient Latino students. Phase I examined the experiences of Latino students through the educational pipeline into law school and identified several protective factors that allowed the participants to persist. Phase II examined the process in which the factors identified in Phase I fostered resilience to and through law school. A phenomenological approach and elements of portraiture were utilized in Phase I and II in order to focus on the shared lived experience of a phenomenon and "unearth goodness" within this experience. Findings from the first phase identified familial, environmental, and institutional protective factors, which contributed to the persistence of the participants in the K-20 pipeline. Familial protective factors encompass two distinct components, parents and siblings. Each contains different characteristics that allow for resilience within the K-20 pipeline. The examples of perseverance, involvement, and high expectations exhibited by parents were found to be particularly effective in mitigating risk factors. The sibling components of the familial protective factor were found to consist of their older siblings showing them how to navigate their education, a sense of responsibility by the participant to do well in school so that they can set an example, and siblings telling them what not to do. Environmental protective factors emerged from the study in the context of community. These protective factors were discovered to occur in two precise ways. The first was in the form of the community acting in a protective fashion, which shielded the participants from several community risk factors. The second was seen within the participants' eventual transformation to the role of community protectors. Institutional protective factors were found to influence academic resilience. Specifically, teachers, college outreach programs, and sports proved to be the most relevant institutional protective factors in the P-12 trajectory. Service, experiential learning opportunities, early academic law outreach programs, and law school retention programs were found to be the most pertinent institutional factors in the postsecondary and law school experiences of the participants. The second phase of this study examined how these factors worked, evolved, and nurtured the participants' academic resilience. Findings also revealed that the participants' academic resilience was based on interactions between all of the protective factors identified in Phase I. The conceptual model proposed in this study suggested that the result of these interactions was a protective process that materialized into four individual protective factors: a positive disposition towards education, optimism, hard work, and giving back. These four individual protective factors were thus critical to the academic resilience of the nine Latino participants.
Download or read book High Achieving Latino Students written by Susan J. Paik and published by IAP. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Schools as Resilient Organizations written by Michael Jay Prada and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beating the Odds written by Anne I. Knezevic and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Individual and Environmental Differences Between Academically High achieving and Low achieving Michigan Latino Students written by Cidhinnia M. Torres Campus and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Factors Contributing to the Academic Resilience of Mexican American College Students written by Beverly D. Rodriguez and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Academic Resilience in Hispanic Adolescents written by Ashley Erin Niemeyer and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Promoting Academic Resilience in Multicultural America written by Erik E. Morales and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Experiences of High Achieving African American Students in Urban High Schools written by Danita Anne Thornton and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: There are a number of African American students attending public schools situated within lower income communities who achieve academic success, despite encountering various challenges. The purpose of this qualitative study was to gain insight into the internal and external protective factors that served to mitigate risk in the lives of academically resilient African American students. Moreover, an examination of the process by which these students achieved academic success despite factors that typically place students "at-risk" or "educationally vulnerable" for academic failure was the goal of this research inquiry. Twenty-one graduating seniors across four high schools were interviewed as part of this phenomenological research investigation. Several themes emerged that supported existing literature on academic resilience and African American students. All participants discussed the impact of both internal and external protective factors across home, schools, and communities that led to academic success. In addition, the majority of respondents reported that in their respective schools, education was valued, responsibilities were often shared among others, and positive and supportive relationships were encouraged across students, teachers, and school staff. Furthermore, participants discussed the process of being resilient, specifically encountering various challenges, but working to achieve their academic goals.
Download or read book Transcending Crisis by Attending to Care Emotion and Flourishing written by Marci D. Cottingham and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers new empirical research and policy-relevant care practices from across the globe to understand the interrelation of care, emotion, and flourishing in the context of acute and persistent crises. From COVID-19 responses around the world to the opioid epidemic in the United States, this volume investigates collective and individual crises as symptoms of underlying systemic pathologies. Crises require deep engagement with both structure and culture, drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives from sociology, nursing, social work, and psychology. Addressing the multi-level challenges of caregiving in families, schools, organizations, and communities, this book presents examples of research and practice that demonstrate compassion, resilience, productive collaboration, and flourishing. It documents the social conditions and processes that spawn effective solutions and positive emotional and health outcomes, which often occur amid chaos, rapid social change, and substantial suffering. The first section focuses on care, emotions, and flourishing in healthcare and educational contexts to examine nurses, students, and teachers as they respond to enduring and acute crises. Section two turns to community and family contexts to understand how emotions and care intertwine in the flourishing practices of women and communities facing isolation during COVID-19, parents of opioid users, and international efforts to address child abuse and healthy aging. Geographically, the book covers experiences in Canada, Ghana, India, Italy, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Each chapter discusses how we can move from managing emotions and coping with crisis to transcending crisis and promoting flourishing. The book includes case studies that illustrate hopeful and successful practices that might help us meet the challenges we face in this moment and move through them with compassion and enhanced flourishing. Examining care across a range of professional contexts, including healthcare, education, community, and family settings, the authors explore similarities and differences in how these contexts shape care practices in light of collective threats and crises. This book is also a valuable contribution to the literatures on health and illness, the sociology of emotions, and the interdisciplinary field of well-being and flourishing.
Download or read book Trait Emotional Intelligence Perceived Discrimination and Academic Achievement Among African American and Latina o High School Students A Study of Academic Resilience written by Nicholas Russell Abel and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of academic resilience research is to identify factors and processes which lead to academic success among groups of students generally found to be at-risk, including those of African American and Latina/o descent. The present study investigated a possible risk factor (perceptions of discrimination), a possible protective factor (emotional intelligence), and the role of gender in predicting academic achievement (as measured by high school GPA) in a sample (N = 79) of African American and Latina/o high school students attending one high school in Minnesota. Through the use of multiple regression, neither emotional intelligence nor perceptions of discrimination was found to be a statistically significant predictor of GPA among the entire sample, although when each gender was considered separately, a significant model for predicting GPA among males did emerge. In addition to these findings and a subsequent discussion, the literature related to academic resilience and the independent variables is presented within, along with implications for educators and recommendations for future research.
Download or read book Schooling Students Placed at Risk written by Mavis G. Sanders and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines historical approaches and current research and practice related to the education of adolescents placed at risk of school failure as a result of social and economic conditions. One major goal is to expand the intellectual exchange among researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and concerned citizens on factors influencing the achievement of poor and minority youth, specifically students in middle and high schools. Another is to encourage increased dialogue about policies and practices that can make a difference in educational opportunities and outcomes for these students. Although the chapters in this volume are not exhaustive, they represent an array of theoretical and methodological approaches that provide readers with new and diverse ways to think about issues of educational equality and opportunity in the United States. A premise that runs through each chapter is that school success is possible for poor and minority adolescents if adequate support from the school, family, and community is available. *The conceptual approach (Section I) places the research and practice on students placed at risk in a historical context and sets the stage for an important reframing of current definitions, research, policies, and practices aimed at this population. *Multiple research methodologies (Sections II and III) allow for comparisons across racial and ethnic groups as well as within groups, and contribute to different and complementary insights. Section III, "Focus on African-American Students," specifically addresses gender and social class differences among African-American adolescents. *Current reform strategies presently being implemented in schools throughout the United States are presented and discussed (Part IV). These strategies or programs highlight how schools, families, and communities can apply research findings like the ones this book presents, thus bridging the often wide gap between social science research and educational practice.
Download or read book Examining Academic Resilience Factors Among African American High School Students written by Natasha LaDawn Murray and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book High Achieving Latino Students written by Jeremiah J. González and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
