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Protective Factors Immigrant Children Bring to the Classroom

Protective Factors Immigrant Children Bring to the Classroom
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Author(s): Jacqueline Onchwari (University of Minnesota – Duluth, USA)
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 15
Source title: Cross-Cultural Considerations in the Education of Young Immigrant Learners
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Jared Keengwe (University of North Dakota, USA)and Grace Onchwari (University of North Dakota, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4928-6.ch016

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Abstract

This chapter focuses on strengths and protective factors immigrant children bring into the classroom. If well nurtured, these strengths can enhance immigrant children’s positive outcomes and those of future generations. The “immigrant paradox” is a phenomenon used to describe the positive outcomes of immigrant children despite developmental risks associated with their relocation and adjustment. Unfortunately, the effects of these protective factors reduce with later generations. This incredible loss is a gap that educators could fill. Using strategies that give immigrant families and children “voice” is critical in breaking through the barriers, stereotypes, attitudes, and under-information that come between the educators and the immigrant children in their care. Some strategies that have proven effective in accessing immigrant children’s strengths are suggested in this chapter.

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