Resiliency and Success: Migrant Children in the U.S. / Edition 1

by Encarnacion Garza, Enrique T. Trueba, Pedro Reyes

Overview

This book elucidates the amazing life journeys of academically successful migrant students. Offering vivid case studies of successful students, this book helps teachers, education students, and researchers understand the factors that lead to success by minority language children. The authors develop the lessons of student success stories into recommendations for schools and for educational policy. Readers gain from this book the stories of real students, the challenges they faced, and the means by which students and schools may overcome language and cultural barriers to educational success.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781594510458
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/19/2004
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	188
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

EncarnaciÓn Garza, Pedro Reyes, Enrique T. Trueba

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Immigration Experience and Resiliency of Mexican Families in the United States; Chapter 2 Migrant Farm Workers and Their Children; Chapter 3 The Struggles of the Migrant Lifestyle; Chapter 4 The Family—Support and Influence; Chapter 5 The School; Chapter 6 The Mentors—Environmental Resources; Chapter 7 The Present—Success Against All Odds; Chapter 8 Analysis of Central Research Questions; Chapter 9 Lessons Learned About Critical Ethnography and Pedagogy;