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The Educational Trajectory of Newly Arrived Migrant Students: Insights from a Structural Analysis of Cultural Capital
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Emery, Laura; Spruyt, Bram; Boone, Simon; Van Avermaet, Piet – Educational Research, 2020
Background: The recent influx of Newly Arrived Migrant Students (NAMS) in Western-European societies poses important educational questions about how best to support migrant students within the education system. Purpose: We sought to study how elements that are associated with cultural capital -- namely a sense of entitlement and strategic…
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, Equal Education, Secondary School Students, Adolescents
Creating STEM Momentum: Culturally Relevant Leadership and Hispanic Girls in High School T- STEM Programs in the Southwest Border Region
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Howard, Antoinette; Gray, Pamela; Kew, Kristin – School Leadership Review, 2020
This case study research identified culturally relevant leadership practices that influence the outreach, recruitment, and retention of Hispanic girls in Texas Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (T-STEM) programs in a School District in the Southwest Border region. Educators have a social justice responsibility to challenge the inequitable…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Culturally Relevant Education, Leadership Styles, Principals
Advancing the Promise of Educational Equity in Belize: A Case Study
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Curry, Katherine A.; Sabina, Lou L.; Sabina, Kiara L.; Harris, Ed; Richardson, Shawna; Mania-Singer, Jackie – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
A new high school on a remote inland in Belize offers important educational opportunities to students who previously only had access to primary education. This qualitative case study applied Patterson's (2000) Culture of Poverty to understand challenges that exist that keep students from achieving their academic potential despite new opportunities…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, High Schools, Geographic Isolation
Roma Girls: Between Traditional Values and Educational Aspirations
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Kyuchukov, Hristo – Intercultural Education, 2011
The paper presents findings from a survey of 720 respondents: 240 Roma parents, 240 Roma boys and 240 Roma girls between 12 and 25 years of age. The subjects were from various regions of Bulgaria and were members of different ethnic groups. The main goal of the survey was to study the current attitudes that Roma communities hold regarding an…
Descriptors: Daughters, Ethnic Groups, Academic Aspiration, Foreign Countries
Postsecondary Educational Aspirations of High-Functioning Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Their Parents
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Camarena, Phame M.; Sarigiani, Pamela A. – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2009
Individual interviews with 21 high-functioning adolescents diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder and their parents were used to assess postsecondary educational aspirations and thoughts concerning obstacles and resources that shape educational achievement of this group. The results from these semistructured interviews revealed that both the…
Descriptors: Autism, Academic Aspiration, Adolescents, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Socialization, Ambition, and Career Expectations: Race-Sex Variations Among Adolescents.
Noel, Dorothy Elizabeth – 1978
The primary objective of the largely exploratory study was an empirical examination of familial socialization practices and their influence on ambition (measured as education and occupational expectations) of black and white males and females. Existing generalizations about career expectations were extended by establishing comparisons on the basis…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Adolescents, Aspiration, Birth Order