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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"Latino/a"”.
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Latino/a LGBTQ Migrations
… LGBTQ individuals, limited research examines the Latino/a segment of the LGBTQ population. The study explores the motivations behind migration as well as the resettlement process of those immigrating to the San Francisco Bay Area from Latin America, focusing on the areas of housing, economic …
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Exploring Sibling Relationships in Latino/a/x Immigrant Families
… sibling relationships in general, research on Latino/a/x sibling relationships is even more limited. The limited research on Latino/a/x siblings from immigrant families has found they have an impact on each other's cultural adaptations. The current study explored the influence of the …
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Latino\a Ethnic Identity in the New Diaspora: Perspectives of a Select Group of Latino\a Undergraduates at a Predominantly White Land Grant University
The increasing presence of "Latinos" in higher education presents a challenge to the academy, particularly in understanding their adjustment to the college environment (Umana-Taylor, Diversi & Fine, 2002). This study investigates how ethnically diverse "Latino\a" undergraduates construct and affirm …
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Higher education: understanding the identity and retention of Latino(a) students
… was to assess the attitudes of the undergraduate Latino(a) students currently enrolled at Rowan University during the 2012 spring semester. More specifically, the two-part study focused on how they identify as Latino(a), their experiences at Rowan as Latinos, their views on Latino(a) role models, …
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Exploring culturally responsive mathematics instruction with Latino/a learners in elementary classrooms
… and high dropout rates of many CLSD students. Latino students, in particular, score among the lowest of all student groups and have the highest dropout rates. Research indicates that culturally responsive teaching (CRT) is a promising approach to improving achievement. CRT teaches to and …
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Positive Youth Development Among Latino/a Youth in a Service Learning Program
… cultivate positive developmental strengths among Latino/a youth participating in a school-based program in Los Angles County. Youth (N=112) in grades 5–12, who were primarily from low SES backgrounds, participated in an environmental and humanitarian education program, the Jane Goodall …
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Decolonizing Moral Visions: Christian Political Economic Ethics, Latino/a Religiosity, and Postcoloniality
<p>This dissertation examines moral visions of the political economy of mainstream Christian social ethics through a liberationist and postcolonial analysis of the work of three leading political economic ethicists, Daniel Finn, Max Stackhouse, and Philip Wogaman. Constrained by their subject …
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Testimonios of Latino/A Students in Hispanic Serving Institutions: Lessons for Community Colleges
… Northern California community college with eight Latino/a student’s and the utilization of their testimonios to bring awareness to their academic experiences, successes and needs as first-generation college students. A large majority of Latino/a students who do enroll in college begin at community …
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Voices of Latino/a immigrants in southeast Michigan: Beyond the criminal/Victim dichotomy
… organizing traditions that readily incorporate Latino immigrants’ voices into their work, and drawing upon postmodern, feminist, and activist schools of thought, this study illuminates the history of immigration policy and discourse in America and the Latino community’s knowledge and expertise …
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Economic Disadvantage, Nativity, and Academic Performance and School Punishment Among Latino/a Children
… negatively impacts the academic well-being of a Latino/a child saturate the literature. This study examines the relationship between economic disadvantage and academic performance and school punishment through Family Stress Process Theory, providing a contextual analysis of resource instability. …
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Hispanic-Latino/a Youth Geographies of Commercial Space and Place in Wells Avenue, Reno, Nevada
… Nevada, which has been home to many Hispanic-Latino/a communities since the 1990s (Berry, 2004), and is now experiencing substantial change through preservation, conservation, and commercial revitalization efforts (Majewski, 2015; Palma & Ocampo, 2021). Today, Wells Avenue is seen by many as a …
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Toward Understanding the Language Reclassification Experiences of Latino/a Learners with Disabilities: An Intersectional Approach
<p>During the past 50 years, scores of federal and state education codes have been created to ensure both special education and ethnically diverse students receive a rigorous but developmentally appropriate education. Nevertheless, evidence to support claims that progress is being made toward …
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Examining Latino a First-Generation College Students' Educational Resilience at a Jesuit Post-Secondary Institution
… study focused on exploring and understanding Latino/a first-generation college students' process for drawing or enabling educational resilience to persist and achieve their postsecondary education degree. Using Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Paradigm as the framework, the study explored how …
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Improving Compliance with Rehabilitation Treatment Recommendations Among the Latino/a Population of Caregivers and Clients
<p>This paper addresses what is currently known about language barriers in health care, ways in which language barriers affect health and health care, the usefulness of linguistic access service interventions. It is inevitable that health care providers must comply with federal and state …
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Latino/a First Generation Students in College: A Mixed Methods Review of Four-Decades of Literature
… was a mixed methods review of the experiences of Latino/a First Generation students in college. Their experiences were identified through a quantitative component of identifying what had been published pertinent to this demographic and sectioning those publications into one of four decades when …
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Pathways to School Success: An Examination of Perspectives of African American and Latino/a Low-income Students
… the perspectives of African American and Latino/a students from low-income families who are especially successful in an urban, public school to elicit and gain insights into factors that mediate their academic success, conditions and contexts that nurture these factors, and the process …
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SOUTH ASIAN AND (UNDOCUMENTED) LATINO/A IMMIGRANT BLOGGERS: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF THEIR ENGAGEMENT WITH IMMIGRATION DISCOURSES
… interpellated by them--(undocumented) Latino/a immigrants and South Asian immigrants. Drawing upon a theory of constitutive rhetoric, I look at ways that members of these two groups are interpellated as subjects within their blogging communities. Moreover, I examine how the collective …
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