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Chambers, J. C.; Freado, Mark – Reclaiming Children and Youth, 2009
The most challenging youth have learned to be experts at outwitting helping professionals. Often with hurt kids, if interactions move beyond the stuff plainly spoken and capture the emotional nuance, the student will respond with an amplification of his emotional tone. Hurt, abandonment and rejection make this student adult wary and impact his…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Interpersonal Relationship, Nonverbal Communication
Yakushko, Oksana – Counseling Psychologist, 2009
The current xenophobic cultural environment in the United States makes it imperative that psychologists understand the nature of xenophobia and recognize its consequences. This article explores sociological, social psychological, and multicultural research to examine the causes of negative attitudes toward immigrants. Xenophobia is presented as a…
Descriptors: Stranger Reactions, Negative Attitudes, Psychologists, Counseling Psychology
Revilla, Anita Tijerina – Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 2012
Students calling themselves the Las Vegas Activist Crew shut down the city's famed Strip on May 1, 2006, with an immigrant rights protest that was one of the largest demonstrations in Nevada's history. This research analyzes the ways that students engage in activism to improve their own social conditions and those of their communities. The…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Activism, Hispanic American Students, Action Research
Taylor, Shelley K. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2009
Cummins calls on educators to promote critical dialog during micro-interactions with students, times when students acquire knowledge and negotiate their identities. For critical dialog to flourish, educators must create caring environments. The purpose of this paper is to examine whether a discourse of caring was transmitted to ethnic Kurdish…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Minorities, Indo European Languages, Turkish
Ullman, Char – Adult Learning, 2010
Since its inception at the turn of the last century, adult education English as a Second Language (ESL) instruction in the United States has been entwined with immigration processes and ideas of the nation. In spite of current uncertainty about the overhauling of federal immigration policy, increasingly anti-immigrant laws in states such as…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Educational History, Adult Basic Education
Cross, M.; Johnson, B. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2008
The article explores student responses to institutional changes to accommodate increasingly diverse students into a cohesive community. It deals with student perceptions of current campus practices, social interaction, their interpretations of these, and how these relate to their experiences. It argues that, while the university has excelled in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Student Reaction, Adjustment (to Environment)
Hollingworth, Sumi; Williams, Katya – Journal of Youth Studies, 2009
In the context of a "death" of class in popular and policy discourse, this paper argues that social class is still a major force at work in young people's lives, particularly in the context of schooling. We argue that young people's subcultural groups are classed, in the way in which they are constructed in discourse. Drawing on a data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Class, Young Adults, Adolescents
Halleck, Gene B. – Simulation & Gaming, 2008
This simulation probes what is known as the "foreign" teaching assistant problem. The "problem" can be found at large state universities in the United States where international graduate students are required to earn their scholarships by teaching undergraduate courses and arises because of a combination of issues, including…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Teaching Assistants, Simulation
Bernier, Annie; Meins, Elizabeth – Developmental Psychology, 2008
Disorganized attachment in infancy is known to predict a wide range of maladaptive outcomes, but its origins are poorly understood. Parental lack of resolution concerning loss or trauma has been proposed to result in atypical parenting behaviors, which in turn have a disorganizing effect on the parent-child relationship. The authors review the…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Parent Child Relationship, Social Environment, Nature Nurture Controversy
Spyrou, Spyros – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2009
This article explores how Greek Cypriot elementary school children construct their identities in relation to Sri Lankan and Filipino women who come to Cyprus as domestic workers. The article focuses primarily on the views of children whose families employ these women; however, the views of children whose families do not employ domestic workers are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes, Females
Ziebertz, Hans-Georg; van der Tuin, Leo – Intercultural Education, 2008
A comparison between the Netherlands and Germany concerning religious, cultural and ethnic plurality provides interesting insights. Germany has never defined itself as a multicultural society, as was historically the case in the Netherlands. The outcomes of the research are somewhat surprising. Dutch pupils--especially boys--are more negative…
Descriptors: International Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Adolescents
Xizhen, Zhuang – Chinese Education and Society, 2007
This article presents a preliminary analysis of a rural junior high school. This school is situated in S town, J county, Shandong province, and, in keeping with the procedure followed for naming the majority of schools in China by location of school + type of school, this school is called S Junior High. J county is one of Shandong's poor counties,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Schools, Rural Education, Rural Areas

Tsai, Jenny Hsin-Chun – Adolescence (San Diego): an international quarterly devoted to the physiological, psychological, psychiatric, sociological, and educational aspects of the second decade of human life, 2006
Immigrant youth often rebuild their friendships and other social networks after arriving in a new country. The difficulties involved can threaten their psychosocial development. Formation of social networks needs to be understood within the macro sociocultural context that shapes the experience. Nonetheless, the current literature on social…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Youth, Friendship, Social Networks
Isler, Hilal Nakiboglu – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2006
The attacks of terror carried out on September 11, 2001 gave rise to waves of hate-fueled violence across the country. It has been argued that the attacks and the subsequent, current context of war have resulted in a heightened sense of American intolerance. They have led to discernable shifts in how certain minorities are perceived and treated in…
Descriptors: Terrorism, Air Transportation, Suicide, National Security
Fendler, Lynn – Curriculum Inquiry, 2006
Community building has been a key concern for a wide array of educational projects. Recently, educational theories concerned about social justice have begun to challenge assumptions about community in U.S. education by criticizing its tendencies toward assimilation and homogeneity. Such theories point out that a communitarian agenda excludes the…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Community, Values, Academic Discourse