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Immigrant Youth Who Excel - Globalization's Uncelebrated Heroes (Hardcover, New)
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Immigrant Youth Who Excel - Globalization's Uncelebrated Heroes (Hardcover, New)
Series: International Perspectives on Educational Policy, Research and Practice
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A volume in International Perspectives on Educational Policy,
Research, and Practice Series Editor: Kathryn M. Borman, University
of South Florida The book has two parts. Through a series of four
interconnected studies, the first focuses on the youths'
perceptions. We, meaning the reader and I, accompany them on their
way into the new school, in chapter 1, and listen to evaluations of
their academic and social experiences. In chapter 2, we learn about
their informal social adaptation in various life settings,
emphasizing gender differences in coping mechanisms. From here, we
proceed to public opinion formation in the course of preparation
for first-time voting in a new political culture (chapter 3).
Perceptions of the military, in chapter 4, as the last stage of
compulsory postsecondary civic engagement for Israeli youngsters,
close this section. The second part places in the limelight the
reactions of the educational system to catering to the needs of
these immigrants who excel. Chapter 5 dwells on teachers'
perspectives on the challenge they present, exploring differences
in these perspectives according to their years of experience and
subject matter area.Chapter 6 examines the organizational modus
operandi of several schools, eliciting field-based models for
handling immigrant students. Evolving from the latter, chapter 7
offers an anthropological approach for training teachers to work
optimally with immigrant and culturally diverse students. The
programmatic epilogue offers an operational model for materializing
the potential to enhance global participation for immigrants as
well as locals, ensuing from the inter-cultural encounter. Research
procedures that are common to a number of studies are explained
upon first mention. To aid in the visualization of adaptive
patterns emerging from this large body of data--on both immigrant
youth and educators in the receiving society--tables summarizing
findings are provided for all but chapter 7. In addition to the
comparative component, each chapter also includes an assessment of
globalization proneness in light of its specific topic.
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