Educational experiences and achievements of war-zone immigrant students in Canada

Autor:	Theresa C. Kelly, Hester Dunlap, Susan Elgie, Lana Stermac
Rok vydání:	2010
Předmět:	Medical education Health (social science) Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject education Pedagogy Immigration Developmental and Educational Psychology Sociology Unrest Affect (psychology) Educational systems media_common
Zdroj:	Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies. 5:97-107
ISSN:	1745-0136 1745-0128
DOI:	10.1080/17450120903440399
Popis:	This study examined the educational experiences and achievements of immigrant students who entered the Canadian educational system from global war-zone (WZ) countries or regions experiencing extreme conditions of civil unrest and destabilization. As exposure to traumatic experience of various types is known to affect the well‐being of individuals, questions about the potential learning challenges that exposure to the traumatic events of war posed to students provided some of the impetus for this study. The research compared backgrounds, academic achievements, school experiences and self-perceptions among three groups of high school students: 245 students from WZ regions around the world, 272 non-war-zone immigrant students from other global regions and 276 Canadian-born (CB) students. Indices of academic performance, participation, engagement and self-rated competencies were obtained from a Statistics Canada database of 15-year-olds. The overall results of this study revealed that adolescent immigrant stu...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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