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Nwora, Clare – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The problem addressed was the low parental engagement of immigrant families who have special needs and the significant challenges adversely affecting the attainment and sustainment of their engagement with the school community. The purpose of this qualitative exploratory multiple case study was to explore the perspectives and experiences of West…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Special Needs Students, Parents, Parent Attitudes
Willis Aggrey Omondi Ochieng – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this descriptive qualitative study was to explore the experiences of African immigrant farmers in the U.S. Data were collected from eight participants who have experienced the phenomenon using in-depth interviews and field observation. Findings revealed that Immigrant farming is anchored on cultural practices resulting from parental…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Indigenous Knowledge, Agricultural Occupations, Farm Management
Saroughi, Maryam – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of the present study was to examine a model of well-being for Immigrant Language-Minority (ILM) undergraduate students focusing on stereotype threat, sense of belonging, academic self-efficacy, self-regulation, positive affect, negative affect, academic satisfaction, and life satisfaction. Five hundred and two (N = 502) undergraduate…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Self Management, Stereotypes, Sense of Community
Yang, Fan – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Bullying encompasses aggressive behaviors in a situation where an individual experiences negative actions from one or more individuals repeatedly and over time in the forms of emotional, verbal, physical, race-based, and cyber aggressiveness. Anti-bullying research and interventions ensure healthy school climate for students as well as promote…
Descriptors: Immigration, Immigrants, Bullying, Peer Relationship
Guglani, Laura – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Spanish is being lost at an alarming rate in the United States, for most immigrant families within two to three generations of arrival. Previous research indicates that the third generation of Hispanic immigrants typically becomes English monolingual (Veltman 2000; Appel & Muysken 1987; Fishman 1978). This investigation examines the role…
Descriptors: Economic Status, Bilingual Education, Child Language, Immigrants
Budenbender, Eva-Maria Suarez – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The contact between Dominicans and Puerto Ricans is targeted for study as much for its linguistic import as for its social context. Dominican and Puerto Rican Spanish are considered varieties of Caribbean Spanish that differ only by a few phonological and syntactic patterns and a small number of lexical items. Although both varieties are heavily…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Security (Psychology), Social Class, Nationalism