Acculturation and School Success: Understanding the Variability of Mexican American Youth Adaptation across Urban and Suburban Contexts

Autor/inn/en	Conchas, Gilberto Q.; Oseguera, Leticia; Vigil, James Diego
Titel	Acculturation and School Success: Understanding the Variability of Mexican American Youth Adaptation across Urban and Suburban Contexts
Quelle	In: Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 44 (2012) 4, S.401-422 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0042-0972
DOI	10.1007/s11256-012-0197-2
Schlagwörter	Acculturation; Immigrants; Youth; Minority Groups; Ethnicity; Educational Experience; Mexican Americans; Academic Achievement; Longitudinal Studies; Educational Policy; Correlation; Self Concept; Urban Areas; Suburbs + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Akkulturation; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Jugend; Jugendlicher; Jugendalter; Ethnische Minderheit; Ethnizität; Bildungserfahrung; Hispanoamerikaner; Schulleistung; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Korrelation; Selbstkonzept; Urban area; Stadtregion; Einzugsbereich
Abstract	This article concentrates on the educational experiences of urban and suburban Mexican American youth, from recent immigrants to those that have been in the United States for generations. The article seeks to unravel the relationship between acculturation and school success by offering a holistic and longitudinal approach of three time periods: 1974, 1988, and 2004. The dynamics of Mexican American acculturation and adaptation differ across populations (People), environmental settings (Place), and across the three time periods studied (Time). The diversity of physical space, social locations, and ethnic identities within the Mexican American population needs to be recognized within such an analysis. This article highlights policy and practice designed to impact the largest ethnic minority group in the United States, a population constantly facing changes. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10