Parental Expectations in Education : A Case Study of Nigerian Immigrant Parents to the United States

ISBN-13: 9783639128697 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 220 str.

Dolapo Adeniji-Neill

Opis

The fusion of two cultures has produced high§achievers in American schools for the children of§Nigerian immigrants. In this study, Nigerians§express the hopes and fears of immigrant parents and§their utmost devotion to seeing to it that their§children succeed in American schools. Nigerian-born§Dolapo Adeniji-Neill attributes the overwhelming§success of Nigerian American children in U.S schools§to their indigenous culture that stresses the§importance of education and the bringing-up of their§young as OMOLUABI, the arts and ways of the human being.§§Adeniji-Neill distills the voices of her interviewees§into a Nigerian voluntary immigrants folk-theory of§parental expectations, and based on her own§experience in the classroom, a list of§recommendations for what teachers can do to support§and nurture immigrant children.§§This is a lessons learned reference for political§decision-makers, school administrators, teachers, and§above all, parents, who are seeking to ease the path§for immigrant children and all minorities.

O autorze

Researcher-writer-educator Dolapo Adeniji-Neill was born in
Ilesha, in southwest Nigeria, heart of Yorubaland. Daughter of a
chief and magistrate, she holds two master s degree and earned
her Ph.D.in Education from the University of Hawaii. She is
currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Education at Bucknell
University.