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School connections : U.S. Mexican youth, peers, and school achievement
- Title
- School connections : U.S. Mexican youth, peers, and school achievement / edited by Margaret A. Gibson, Patricia Gándara, Jill Peterson Koyama ; foreword by Jeannie Oakes.
- Publication
- New York ; London : Teachers College Press, 2004.
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- Description
- xii, 210 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- This volume examines the ongoing social dynamic between peer relations and academic achievement, bringing together the latest thinking from prominent scholars in anthropology, psychology, sociology, and education. It links new research on Mexican-origin adolescents, their peer relations, and their academic achievement.
- Subject
- Mexican American youth > Education (Secondary) > Social aspects > United States > Case studies
- Children of immigrants > Education (Secondary) > Social aspects > United States > Case studies
- Peer pressure in adolescence > United States > Case studies
- Underachievers > United States > Attitudes > Case studies
- Children of immigrants > Education (Secondary) > Social aspects
- Peer pressure in adolescence
- Mexikanisches Kind
- Schulerfolg
- Sekundarstufe
- Unterricht
- Enseignement secondaire
- Enfant d'immigrant
- Américain d'origine mexicaine
- Jeune
- Immigrant mexicain
- Rendement scolaire
- Pression des pairs
- Adolescent
- Attitude
- Aspect social
- United States
- USA
- États-Unis
- Genre/Form
- Case studies
- Case studies.
- Études de cas.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The role of peers in the schooling of U.S. Mexican youth / Margaret A. Gibson, Patricia Gándara, Jill Peterson Koyana -- Social capital among working-class minority students / Ricardo D. Stanton-Salazar -- The changing shape of aspirations : peer influence on achievement behavior / Patricia Gándara, Susan O'Hara, Dianna Gutiérrez -- "Acting out" and being a "schoolboy" : performance in an ELD classroom / Clayton A. Hurd -- Gangs and group membership : implications for schooling / James Diego Vigil -- The influence of intergroup relations on school engagement : two cases / Heather Lewis-Charp, Hanh Cao Yu, Diane Friedlaender -- Belonging and school participation : lessons from a migrant student club / Margaret A. Gibson [and others] -- "Like family, you know?" : school and the achievement of peer relations / Jason Duque Raley -- Peers and school performance : implications for research, policy, and practice / Patricia Gándara and Margaret A. Gibson.
- ISBN
- 0807744387
- 9780807744383
- 0807744379
- 9780807744376
- LCCN
- 2003067206
- OCLC
- ocm53823367
- 53823367
- SCSB-8919707
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library