First Advisor

Maciel M. Hernandez

Date of Award

8-6-2020

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Psychology and University Honors

Department

Psychology

Language

English

Subjects

Immigrant children -- Education, Children of immigrants -- Education, Child development, Developmental psychology

DOI

10.15760/honors.948

Abstract

Being an essential part of American community, immigrants face several challenges as they adjust to life away from their home country. Many of those challenges begin when immigrant students start school in the United States education system. This exploratory research investigates the school experiences of immigrants and whether or not they were supported by their peers, teachers, parents, and community and how that influenced their development. Adult immigrants will reflect back on their education experience through interviews in order for the researcher to contribute a new foundation for immigrant student development research from the perspective of actual immigrants. This will show how schools can better support their immigrant students in order to optimize their psychological development. Due to COVID-19, the interviews were postponed. This thesis will include the methodology and predicted results.

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https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/33493

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