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Xiaodi Zhou – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2024
This study follows the literacy experiences of four Latina middle schoolers as they read Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and compose home language narratives in their heritage voices. Both their vibrant ethnic cultures and other intersecting rays of identities are analyzed in the vein of their literate identities. Through analysis of their…
Descriptors: Latin Americans, Grade 8, Bilingualism, Biculturalism
Yvette L. Koval – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study was to examine Latino parent perspectives on parent engagement at the junior high level, focusing on experiences both at home and at school. Qualitative data was gathered from Latino parents of junior high students in Texas through bilingual focus groups and individual interviews. Themes synthesized from participant…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Latin Americans, Parents, Parent Attitudes
Sara A. Sukalski – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Proficient reading requires the ability to analyze words for various properties, including pronunciation, meaning, and syntactical function. However, most instruction in word analysis is limited to phonics instruction provided in the early elementary grades. For older students, whose words largely center units of meaning, or morphemes, early…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Middle School Students, Morphology (Languages), Semantics
Amy C. Crosson; Michael J. Kieffer; Margaret G. McKeown; William Nagy – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2025
Purpose: Converging evidence demonstrates that robust academic vocabulary and morphology instruction improves literacy outcomes of multilingual adolescents. However, few interventions have focused on teaching word analysis using bound Latin roots, the major meaning-carrying constituents of academic words (e.g. voc meaning "speak" in…
Descriptors: Reading Research, Contrastive Linguistics, Multilingualism, Vocabulary Development
Jaqueline V. Dighero; Ilene N. Cruz; Gabriela Chavira – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2024
Using LatCrit and QuantCrit, we examined the effect of school climate, ethnic identity, and self-esteem on GPA in a sample of 300 Latinx high school students. We found significant positive correlations between climate and GPA as well as self-esteem and GPA. Moreover, using structural equation modeling, we found self-esteem mediated the…
Descriptors: High School Students, Public Schools, Grade 9, Grade 10
Eduardo López; Jorge López; Roxana Dueñas – Urban Education, 2024
This article focuses on the ways the authors incorporate a transformational resistance framework in their ninth-grade ethnic studies curriculum. While literature on transformational resistance often highlights external forms of resistance, there is a need to examine the internal transformation youth experience when engaging in resistance. The…
Descriptors: Latin Americans, Grade 9, High School Students, Ethnic Studies
Ai Bo; James Jaccard – Prevention Science, 2024
Among the many social determinants linked to adolescent alcohol use and depression, racial and ethnic discrimination is a prevalent determinant among Latinx adolescents and adults that is largely overlooked in preventive interventions. This study explored the influence of perceived racial and ethnic discrimination on depressive symptoms and…
Descriptors: Racism, Ethnic Groups, Social Discrimination, Depression (Psychology)
Worth, Paula – Teaching History, 2021
As part of her department's effort to diversify the history curriculum, Paula Worth began a quest to research and then shape a lesson sequence around the Inkas. Her article shows how she allowed the new topic and its historiography to challenge and extend her own use of sources, particularly oral tradition. Only after wrestling with traces of oral…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Middle School Students, Oral Tradition, Indigenous Populations
Natalia Lopez-Hornickel; Diego Carrasco; Siugmin Lay; Ernesto Treviño – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2024
Promoting adhesion to attitudes toward gender equity is critical to achieving more equal societies, yet endorsement of gender equality among Latin American adolescents remains lower than global averages. This study investigates the role of school environments, civic knowledge, and authoritarianism in shaping gender equity attitudes among 8th-grade…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Latin Americans, Grade 8, Middle School Students
Miranda, Daniel; Castillo, Juan Carlos; Sandoval-Hernandez, Andrés – Youth & Society, 2020
A growing body of literature from different disciplines addresses concepts and measurement of citizenship. The present article seeks to contribute to this field by examining the issue of youth citizenship from a comparative international perspective and proposing a simplified conceptual model that can be operationalized. This model includes a…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Models, Youth, Community Organizations
Halfman, Jordi – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2020
Both in academia and in everyday discourse, the belief in the (re)production of national ideology and related civil culture(s) within state schools has remained strong. This idea(l) has also become salient among a growing number of educational specialists, anti-colonial activists and policymakers on Sint Maarten, the Dutch or southern side of the…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Popular Culture, Grade 6, Public Schools
Tovar-Hilbert, Jessica; Mountain, Lee – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2019
More than a quarter of all U.S. students in grades K-12 are Latinx. Examining what Latinx texts are included in classroom literature anthologies is essential to ensuring cultural representativeness of the increasing Latinx student population, especially in states such as Texas and California, whose Hispanic student population is more than 40…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Authors, Latin American Literature, Trend Analysis
Jennifer Parker Monger; Mary Beth Hines; Catherine Marchese – Thresholds in Education, 2023
This article draws from inquiry-based research that explored the efficacy of practitioners' efforts to create an asset-oriented field experience with preservice teachers and middle school students, responding to the challenge of building a virtual learning community during the pandemic. Through thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006), we…
Descriptors: Social Distance, Resilience (Psychology), Preservice Teachers, Middle School Students
Haenni Hoti, Andrea; Wolfgramm, Christine; Müller, Marianne; Heinzmann, Sybille; Buholzer, Alois – Intercultural Education, 2019
The present study examined what impact various constellations of acculturation orientations of immigrant students and their teachers have on the students' school adjustment. For this purpose, the study analysed the acculturation orientations of 1106 5th graders and their class teachers in Switzerland. Using multiple regression analysis, we found…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Instructional Effectiveness, Student Adjustment, Acculturation
Patricia Wonch Hill; Julia McQuillan; Eileen A. Hebets; Amy N. Spiegel; Judy Diamond – Journal of STEM Outreach, 2018
The current study explores patterns of informal science experiences among youth in urban and rural middle schools by gender and socioeconomic status. Data come from surveys in two Midwestern middle schools, one in a mid-sized city, and the other in a rural-remote town. We asked about participation in informal science activities (e.g. visiting zoos…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Rural Youth, Urban Youth, Informal Education