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Bain, Pauline. "Jah children the experience of Rastafari children in South Africa as members of a minority group with particular reference to communities in the former Cape Province." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002650.
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This thesis is an ethnography of Rastafari childhood in the former Cape Province, South Africa, through the eyes of both parents and children. If children are a ‘muted group’, then what are the identity formation implications for “double-muted” groups, the children of ethnic minorities whose voices are not heard? Rasta parents’ experience of the struggle, ie. the opposition to apartheid, has shaped the Rastafari chant of ‘equal rights’ and ‘justice’ into a distinctly South African form of protest and resistance. Their childhood experiences have resulted in a desire to provide a better life for their children, using Rastafari as a vehicle. This is expressed in a continuation of the struggle that was started during apartheid, in the Rasta ideology children grow up learning. The Rasta child has become a contested body in this struggle. The South African Government, through policy, has a mandate to protect the child, and legislature exists to do so in accordance with international law. However, as child-raising differs phenomenally from culture to culture, these goals on the part of the State start infringing upon the rights and freedoms of minorities to raise their children according to their own cultural goals. This study examines the tension between Rastafari and government with regards to child raising, specifically looking at the following main points of contestation: public health, public schools and policy/legislation; in order to examine how Rasta children negotiate their identity in the face of these conflicting messages and struggles. Their identity can be influenced by three main groups, the Rasta family they grow up in; school; and multi-media. What these children choose to accept or reject in their worldview is moderated by their own agency. This study shows that this tension results in a new generation of Rastafari children, who are strongly grounded in an identity as Rastafari and take pride in this identity. It also illustrates how Rastafari are impacting on and changing government policy through resistance. Their successes in challenging the state on the grounds of multiculturalism and religious freedom, has helped in the attainment of a sense of dignity.
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Ahluwalia, Ekta. "Parental Cultural Mistrust, Background Variables, and Attitudes Toward Seeking Mental Health Services for Their Children." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1990. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc330704/.
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Attitudes toward mental illness and the willingness to seek psychological treatment for their children among ethnic minority group parents were investigated. Participants consisted of black, Hispanic, Native American and Asian parents. All parents were given the Terrell and Terrell Cultural Mistrust Inventory, Cohen and Struening Opinions About Mental Illness Scale, Reid-Gundlach Social Services Satisfaction Scale, Fischer-Turner Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Help Scale, and Ahluwalia Parents' Psychological Help-Seeking Inventory. A multiple regression model was used to explore the purpose of this study. Parental mistrust level, ethnicity, education, income level, and opinions about mental illness served as predictor variables. The criterion variables consisted of scores on the Social Services Satisfaction Scale and Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help Scale.
The results indicated that the most significant predictor of psychological help-seeking was parental cultural mistrust level. Parents with higher cultural mistrust levels were less likely to seek help. Education was also predictive of black and Native American parents' help-seeking attitude and willingness to seek psychological help for their children. Black and Native Americans with lower levels of education were less willing to seek treatment for their children than members of those ethnic groups with higher levels of education. Ethnicity was also related to parental willingness to seek help for their children. Hispanic and black parents expressed more willingness to seek help than Native American and Asian parents. Finally, parents' opinions about mental illness were found to be significantly related to help-seeking attitude. Parents with positive opinions about mental illness were more likely to utilize professional psychological help than those parents with negative opinions about mental illness. Some clinical and theoretical implications of these findings are discussed.
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Deadrick-Boone, Karima Aisha. "The perceived influence of spirituality in adolescent residential group homes." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2647.
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This qualitative study explores the perceived influence of spirituality on ethnic minority adolescent's outcomes in faith-based residential group homes. Study results offer a deeper understanding of the influence and implementation of spiritual practices among children impacted by child welfare.
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Adger, Sonja M. "The underrepresentation of minority groups in North Carolina's gifted programs /." Electronic version (PDF), 2004. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2004/adgers/sonjaadger.pdf.
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Platt, Lucinda. "The experience of poverty : welfare dynamics among children of different ethnic groups." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365527.
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France-Dawson, Merry. "The social context of health care for minority ethnic groups diagnosed as having sickle cell conditions." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1994. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10021509/.
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Health care needs are socially defined and care provision is dependent on these definitions. There is generally poor consideration of the needs of people with genetically determined conditions, especially when they are perceived to be rare. In Britain, sickle cell conditions mainly affect people of African and Caribbean ancestry. Sickle cell is considered to be rare by many health professionals despite the fact that 1 in 10 people from these ethnic groups carry the gene, and that each year more than 200 babies are born with serious sickle cell states in London alone. This study was conducted in two parts. Part 1 examines how much people who with one or more sickle cell genes know about the conditions. It investigates their experiences of and perceived need for health care and their attitudes regarding self-care. The study also examines whether clients have received genetic and other counselling, understood the information provided and whether they were encouraged to use positive health strategies to avoid ill health. Part 2 examines how the socialisation and education of nurses and health visitors may have affected their knowledge of sickle cell conditions. It assesses their experience of caring for people with the conditions and the contributions they could make to patient/client care. Statutory and voluntary sickle cell counsellors were also interviewed regarding the service they provided, their satisfaction with that service and their perceived needs for improving such services. The socialisation of individuals is discussed to show how the different racial groups (ie. largely carers versus clients) involved in the study, develop perceptions of each other, and how this could contribute to misconceptions on both sides as well as to the overall health problems of people with sickle cell conditions. Social environments (ie. housing, employment, education, racism and so on) are also discussed.
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Bovino, Rebecca Joann. "Effects of an asthma education program for Spanish-speaking parents of asthmatic children." Scholarly Commons, 2005. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/2666.
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Asthma is a serious respiratory disease that is affected by environmental and psychological variables. Asthma education programs are used to reduce the morbidity associated with asthma and to teach people how to better manage their illness so that they might have a higher quality of life. Although much research has examined the effectiveness of asthma education programs within the Caucasian community, no research has been done to see if asthma education programs are effective in the Hispanic community. This study examined the effects of an asthma education program directed towards three Spanish-speaking parents of children, 7–17 years old, who were diagnosed with asthma. Participants were recruited from local health clinics with written advertisements and were given a monetary reward for their participation in the study. This study was a series of AB designs with staggered baselines, as well as pre and post testing. The pretests and posttests include translated checklists that measure knowledge, self-efficacy, symptoms, problem behaviors, and quality of life of caretakers of children with asthma. Data were also collected on the number of doctor visits and asthma attacks. Treatment consisted of a 2-hr asthma education intervention in Spanish for the parents and caretakers of asthmatic children. It was expected that symptoms, number of doctor visits, number of asthma attacks, and problem behaviors would decline and that knowledge, self-efficacy and quality of life would increase for each of the participants. Only parent knowledge of asthma management techniques increased significantly after the implementation of the treatment. Implications of the study are discussed.
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Moore, Gabrielle. "Magic Mae." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1525191279688537.
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Thompson, Brenda M. "Asian-named minority groups in a British school system: A study of the education of the children of immigrants of Indian, Pakistani or Bangladeshi origin from the Indian sub-continent or East Africa in the City of Bradford." Thesis, University of Bradford, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/2814.
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This thesis was planned as an -interdisciplinary work, a possible exemplar of 'a
peace study' (see Appendix 5).
It offers an analysis of the situation of the Asian children of immigrant
families, socially and racially disadvantaged in Britain, in the Bradford school
system from the mid-1970's to 1980*, and their relative success in terms of
external examination assessment in comparison with their peers. This is seen
against the backcloth of pioneering Local Authority policies to support their
education and observations of practice in schools. The findings are generalised as
models of what is perceived by the policy-makers and practitioners to be progress
towards racial justice and peace.
It is argued that the British school system has shown limited facility to offer
equal opportunity of success to pupils in socially disadvantaged groups and that this
is borne out in an analysis of the situation of the Asian pupils in the County
Upper schools in Bradford (CB), less likely to be allocated to external
examination-orientated groups or to gain success in these than their peers. There
are indications that their potential may not be being realised. It is argued that
while language support for the bilingual child is important, account should also be
taken of a more general cultural dominance in the school system and stereotyped
low expectations from teachers which may feed racial bias in institutions.
The data show that the LEA policies, though benevolent in intention,
demonstrate institutional racism in effect. With four case studies from observations
in Bradford schools, models are developed for practice that has potential for
power-sharing and greater equity of opportunity -for pupils, involving respect for
cultural diversity and antiracist education strategies supporting and supported by
community participation in schools. It is argued that white educationists need to
listen to black clients, pupils and their parents, involving them in dialogue to
ascertain their real needs, to implement appropriate policy.
As there was a considerable lapse of time between the field work research and
writing up of this thesis, and its final presentation, an addendum (with bibliography)
reviews some of the research and literature in the fleld since 1980. This situates the field
work historically. The issues raised and discussed in the context of the 1970's are still far
from being solved. The additional work stregthens, rather than changes my original
conclusion that society is locked into a cycle of inequality. A counter-hegemony must
emerge from 'grass-roots', community initiatives with a values-base linked not to self-seeking
or confrontational power group politics but to a notion of the common good.
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Thompson, Brenda Mary. "Asian-named minority groups in a British school system : a study of the education of the children of immigrants of Indian, Pakistani or Bangladeshi origin from the Indian sub-continent or East Africa in the City of Bradford." Thesis, University of Bradford, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/2814.
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This thesis was planned as an -interdisciplinary work, a possible exemplar of 'a peace study' (see Appendix 5). It offers an analysis of the situation of the Asian children of immigrant families, socially and racially disadvantaged in Britain, in the Bradford school system from the mid-1970's to 1980*, and their relative success in terms of external examination assessment in comparison with their peers. This is seen against the backcloth of pioneering Local Authority policies to support their education and observations of practice in schools. The findings are generalised as models of what is perceived by the policy-makers and practitioners to be progress towards racial justice and peace. It is argued that the British school system has shown limited facility to offer equal opportunity of success to pupils in socially disadvantaged groups and that this is borne out in an analysis of the situation of the Asian pupils in the County Upper schools in Bradford (CB), less likely to be allocated to external examination-orientated groups or to gain success in these than their peers. There are indications that their potential may not be being realised. It is argued that while language support for the bilingual child is important, account should also be taken of a more general cultural dominance in the school system and stereotyped low expectations from teachers which may feed racial bias in institutions. The data show that the LEA policies, though benevolent in intention, demonstrate institutional racism in effect. With four case studies from observations in Bradford schools, models are developed for practice that has potential for power-sharing and greater equity of opportunity -for pupils, involving respect for cultural diversity and antiracist education strategies supporting and supported by community participation in schools. It is argued that white educationists need to listen to black clients, pupils and their parents, involving them in dialogue to ascertain their real needs, to implement appropriate policy. As there was a considerable lapse of time between the field work research and writing up of this thesis, and its final presentation, an addendum (with bibliography) reviews some of the research and literature in the fleld since 1980. This situates the field work historically. The issues raised and discussed in the context of the 1970's are still far from being solved. The additional work stregthens, rather than changes my original conclusion that society is locked into a cycle of inequality. A counter-hegemony must emerge from 'grass-roots', community initiatives with a values-base linked not to self-seeking or confrontational power group politics but to a notion of the common good.
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Behrle, Sarah H. "EFFECTIVENESS OF PEER-MEDIATED SOCIAL SKILLS TRAINING ON MEASURES OF SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILDREN DISPLAYING ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIORS." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1313515170.
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Spisak, Stephanie. "Using Art Therapy to Empower Young Kenyan Girls." Ursuline College / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=urs1209239573.
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Monárrez-Espino, Joel. "Health and nutrition in the Tarahumara of Northern Mexico : studies among women and children /." Uppsala : Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis : Univ.-bibl. [distributör], 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-3987.
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Santana-Wynn, Jari. "Acculturation Stress of Immigrant Latino Children: A narrative investigation." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1272815276.
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MENDES, SEYNA U. R. "Avaliação dos teores de mercúrio em cabelos de crianças residentes em área de garimpo no munícipio de Chapada de Natividade - Tocantins." reponame:Repositório Institucional do IPEN, 2017. http://repositorio.ipen.br:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/28027.
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No. of bitstreams: 0<br>Made available in DSpace on 2017-11-21T11:27:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0<br>O trabalho tem como objetivo avaliar a exposição ao mercúrio de crianças residentes em área de garimpo e em área de controle, sem garimpo. Para isso foi realizado um estudo transversal com crianças residentes nos municípios de Chapada de Natividade e Porto Nacional, no Estado de Tocantins onde foi realizada a coleta de cabelo para análise laboratorial dos teores de mercúrio, comparando com relação aos municípios, gênero, consumo mensal de peixe, profissão dos pais e presença de amálgama em restaurações dentárias. As amostras de cabelo foram analisadas pelos métodos de análise por ativação com nêutrons e também por meio do equipamento DMA (Direct Mercury Analyser) sendo esse último em parceria com a CETESB. Não foram encontradas evidências de doenças causadas pelo mercúrio nas crianças estudadas. A concentração média de mercúrio nas crianças de Chapada de Natividade foi significativamente maior que as de Porto Nacional. Não houve relação significante entre concentrações de mercúrio e o gênero, consumo mensal de peixe, profissão dos pais e presença de amálgama em restaurações dentárias. Análises de amostras de peixes mais consumidos na região exposta ao garimpo apontam concentrações de mercúrio abaixo dos valores recomendados, necessitando de estudo mais aprofundado. Os resultados sugerem que as crianças habitantes em região exposta ao garimpo sofrem maior exposição ambiental ao mercúrio, independente de seus hábitos alimentares ou gênero.<br>Dissertação (Mestrado em Tecnologia Nuclear)<br>IPEN/D<br>Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares - IPEN-CNEN/SP
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Owoo, Francesca K. "A Phenomenological Study of the Lived Experiences of Caregivers of Children with Sickle Cell Disease." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron149149171461742.
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Williams, Emma Peyton. "Dreaming of Abolitionist Futures, Reconceptualizing Child Welfare: Keeping Kids Safe in the Age of Abolition." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1592141173476542.
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Sodhi, Raman. "A comparative study of emotional problems in minority group and caste hindu children and their level of achievement motivation and scholastic achievements." Thesis, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2009/943.
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Brown, Phyllis Charlotte. "Waking up the children so they can wake up America: A case study of cultural identity groups." 1999. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9932297.
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This study focuses on understanding the impact of the Cultural Identity Group (CIG) program on the racial/ethnic identity development of students who were involved in a sixteen-week program in an ethnically diverse middle school in New England. The program began in October 1996 and ended in May 1997. The cultural identity groups met once a week except during school holidays and vacation. This study was part of a larger project funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The Cultural Identity Group model on which this study is based was jointly developed and piloted in a Western Massachusetts Elementary School by Phyllis C. Brown, MMHS, Ernest Washington, Ed.D., Allen Ivey, Ed. D. and Mary Bradford-Ivey, Ed.D. Qualitative and quantitative measures were used to gather information about the impact of the Cultural Identity Group on the racial/ethnic identity development of the students as well as on their attitudes toward people from different racial/ethnic backgrounds. The Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure developed by Jean Phinney (1989) was used to assess students' ethnic awareness. Interviews conducted with a racially/ethnically diverse sample from the Cultural Identity Group provided evidence of the impact of CIG on the racial/ethnic identity of participants. The findings in this study demonstrated that students who participated in CIG gained a heightened sense of their racial/ethnic self as well as an increase in interethnic awareness. There was an emerging awareness of the pervasiveness of racism among participants in this study. Participants also gained skills to help them deal with and interrupt injustice. These skills included recognizing ethnic jokes and developing constructive, practical solutions for confronting racist behavior directed toward adolescents. The implications of this study concern students, and educators, as well as theories of adolescent development and racial identity development. Providing students structured environments in which to talk and learn about their own ethnic background, race and racism may have a positive impact on their racial/ethnic development which may promote better interethnic relationships in school. Any study of adolescent development must consider differences as well as similarities in adolescent development based on racial/ethnic factors. Future and current educators need to learn about theories of racial/ethnic identity and understand how it plays out in adolescents' lives and in school, in order to create school culture that affirms all students.
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Feddes, Allard Rienk [Verfasser]. "Group membership matters? : effects of direct and extended cross-ethnic friendship on minority and majority children's intergroup attitudes / von Allard Rienk Feddes." 2008. http://d-nb.info/987501062/34.
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Brar, Shakuntla. "Child temperament, parenting styles and externalizing and internalizing behavior of young children of Indian immigrants in Canada." 2003. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3096265.
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Temperament has been found to be consistently and significantly associated with externalizing and internalizing behavior in children. However, this relationship is in modest to moderate range, suggesting that there are some other factors in child's environment contributing to his/her externalizing and internalizing behavior. Moreover, these direct link (correlational) studies do not explain how the relationship between child temperament and externalizing and internalizing behavior is moderated by other factors. Indian immigrants' children have not been represented in studies on externalizing and internalizing behavior of young children in North America. Therefore, the present study was designed to investigate, first, the role of child temperament and mothers' parenting styles in externalizing and internalizing behavior of young children of Indian immigrants, and second, how mothers' parenting styles moderate the relationship between these two variables. The sample comprised 160 first grade and kindergarten children and their Indian immigrant mothers. Child Behavior Checklist, Temperament Assessment Battery for Children-Revised, and Parenting Styles and Dimensions questionnaires were used to collect the data. Descriptive statistics, correlations and hierarchical multiple regression analyses were used to analyze the data. Findings suggest that child impulsivity, negative emotionality, lack of task persistence, and inhibition were associated positively with externalizing and internalizing behavior of children. Activity level was associated positively with externalizing but not with internalizing behavior. Authoritarian and permissive parenting styles were associated positively, whereas, authoritative parenting style was associated negatively with both externalizing and internalizing behavior. The relationship between child temperament and externalizing behavior was moderated by mothers' parenting styles. High authoritative parenting style weakened the relationship between impulsivity and externalizing behavior in children, whereas high authoritarian and permissive parenting styles strengthened this relationship. The relationship of child negative emotionality and lack of task persistence with internalizing behavior of children was not moderated by parenting styles. However, parenting styles made significant contributions in explaining the variance in internalizing behavior of children beyond what was already explained by negative emotionality and lack of task persistence. In terms of relationship between child temperament, parenting styles, and externalizing and internalizing behavior of children, the results of the current study were similar to the findings of the studies conducted on the main stream population in North America.
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KOBZOVÁ, Andrea. "Transkulturní odlišnosti v péči o dětského pacienta." Master's thesis, 2018. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-386680.
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Due to the higher migration rates, there is more cultural diffusion. The healthe care personnel will be dealing with patients from different cultures more often. This is why it is important to use an appropriate approach and give competent heathcare considering cultural backround of the patients. The goal of this thesis was to map the cultural differences in care for an underage patient and to trend the minority groups that are being cared for by nurses in the children's ward. To achieve the goal of this thesis, there were four specified questions and to achieve the result, there was a threephase trial, specifically qualitative trial supplemented with quantitative method using a questionnaire. The first phase was the pilot poll and a techniquire "snowball slamping" was used. The second phase of the trial consisted of pre-structured interviews with the nurses. The third phase consisted of pre-structured interviews with the parents. On the basis of this trial, it was concluded that the nurses are caring for Romany and Vietnamese minority groups most often. The other most patiens from Ukraine, Russia, Germany, Poland, Muslims and Jehova witnesses. The most common problems that occur during the care are: language barrier, cultural customs, communication and co-operation. Based on the data collected from interviews with nurses and parents, there are specific variations in expectency of care, such as food, daily regime, differences in behavour, communication, reliability to adhere to given rules and consequent care after the hospital stay. There are other different specifics such as rituals and traditions during child labour or at the time of death, celebration of different festivals, fasting and other spiritual needs. Traditions relating to refusal or demand of specific care were also mentioned. Results of this thesis were presented at the 13th Student conference in Pardubice and will be published in a technical journal.
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Good, Mohamed Farah Ahmed. "Somali refugee perceptions of factors impacting the learning of their children in high schools." 1999. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9932316.
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Over the last 15 years, approximately 12,000 Somali immigrants and refugees have settled in the capital region of Ottawa-Carleton. According to a study of Somali youth (Ali, 1995), about seventy percent (70%) of the Somalis in Ottawa-Carleton are between 1 and 17 years old. The Ottawa Board of Education reported that in 1993, thirty three percent of all immigrant and refugee students were Somalis. While schools have been successful in helping a significant portion of these students to succeed in their learning, evidence shows that many are disconnected from productive learning. As establishing constructive connections between the home environment and the school environment is an important and crucial step to improve the educational opportunities for students who are at risk of failure, a study of the parents' perceptions is warranted. The main purpose of this study, therefore, was to investigate the Somali parents' perceptions of the school and non-school learning conditions that help or hinder the education of their children in Ottawa high schools. A survey questionnaire was used to collect the data from a sample of diverse Somali parents. The diversity of the sample is in terms of gender, level of education, employment, marital status, number of years in Canada, and number of children. Specifically, four research questions guided this study: (1) What do Somali parents consider to be the school and non-school learning conditions that help the education of their children who are succeeding in their learning? (2) What do Somali parents consider to be the school and non-school conditions that hinder the education of their children who are at risk of failure in learning? (3) What are parents perceptions of the school personnel's willingness to involve immigrant parents in educational decision-making? (4) What recommendations do Somali parents make to improve learning conditions for all children? Data were drawn from the survey responses of 85 Somali parents whose children attend high schools in Ottawa. Findings indicate that parents are concerned about the lack of diversity and multicultural instructional materials in schools. While parent responses regarding the treatment of their children in schools vary widely, there is a consensus among the parents that guidance counselors are not sensitive to the needs of immigrant students. Findings also indicated that parents expressed the schools' limited effort and interest in involving immigrant parents in school committees. Lack of effective communication is an other concern raised by parents. Most of participating parents stated that the only time they get a call from school is when there is a problem. Some expressed the schools unwillingness to communicate with parents even when a parent takes the initiative and visits the school of his or her child.