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Pillay, Thashika; Asadi, Neda – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2018
Available statistics and literature indicate that Somali-Canadian youth face unique challenges in their everyday lives. Somali students have a 36.7 % dropout rate (Jibril, 2011). Somali-Canadian community members in Edmonton contend that Somali-Canadian students are labelled with behavioural or cognitive disorders, diagnoses that do not take into…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Immigrants, Refugees, Cultural Background
Stuhr, Christian – 1987
A study sought to discover several general principles of student attrition, based on investigations into students dropping out of school carried out between 1973 and 1986. These investigations included a survey of 21 head instructors and 289 students at an Ontario community college, impressions gained from students dropping out of adult basic…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Education, Adult Students, American Indians