The Flow of Ethnicity: Voices of Diverse High School Youth.

Autor/inn/en	Davidson, Ann Locke; und weitere
Institution	Center for Research on the Context of Secondary School Teaching.
Titel	The Flow of Ethnicity: Voices of Diverse High School Youth.
Quelle	(1991), (39 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Asian Americans; Black Students; Case Studies; Educational Environment; Ethnicity; High School Students; High Schools; Interpersonal Competence; Italian Americans; Mexican Americans; Social Structure; Student Experience; Urban Schools; Urban Youth; Vietnamese People; White Students + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Asian immigrant; United States; Asiatischer Einwanderer; USA; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Ethnizität; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Hispanoamerikaner; Sozialstruktur; Studienerfahrung; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Youth; Jugend
Abstract	This paper considers whether ethnicity is a social construction that is constantly being recreated in a nexus of shifting social relations rather than a set of perceptions and behaviors that remain constant and stem from a youth's membership in an ethnic group. Student responses about ethnicity from a larger study of student role and engagement in school provided impetus for this research, which used case studies of 10 students in urban high schools in California. The students, freshmen when the study began, include: (1) four Mexican American females; (2) two Vietnamese immigrant females; (3) two African American males; (4) one Italian American male; and (5) one Anglo American female. Semistructured interviews, school and classroom observations, and analyses of student records provide information about student experiences of ethnicity. The case studies support the view that what happens in schools does affect students' senses of themselves and their identities. The meaning of ethnicity is constantly renegotiated as students interact with teachers and peers in classrooms and at home. This research also suggests that teachers can work positively with youth who experience racism. There is a 29-item bibliography. (SLD)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC