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Direct linkRaby, Rebecca; Pomerantz, Shauna – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2015
Through the lens of post-structural agency, this article focuses on how self-identified smart girls strategically negotiate their academic identities within the gendered terrain of the school. Based on interviews with 51 smart high school girls in Canada, our analysis complicates current narrative of girls' easy achievement in school. Participants…
Descriptors: Females, Academic Achievement, Interviews, Student Attitudes
Costigan, Catherine L.; Hua, Josephine M.; Su, Tina F. – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2010
This article reviews qualitative and quantitative studies related to the academic achievement of youth from immigrant Chinese families. Overall, the literature suggests that Chinese Canadian students demonstrate high levels of achievement and that this academic success is associated with factors such as stronger feelings of ethnic identity, better…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Immigrants
