Bi-cultural competence and academic resilience among immigrants
By: Rosalva Vega Vargas-Reighley.
Series: The new Americans; New Americans (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
Publisher: LFB Scholarly Pub.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
Subjects: Teenage immigrants -- California; Teenagers with social disabilities -- California; Acculturation -- California; Academic achievement -- Social aspects -- California; Resilience (Personality trait) -- California; Home and school -- California
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The relationship of bicultural competence and academic resilience; title: The value of academic resilience; title: The construction of bicultural competence; title: Stress, coping, and context; title: Cross cultural research; title: Between group comparisons; title: Results; title: Toward a model of drop-out intervention.