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resilience of students with an immigrant background
Foreword -- Executive Summary -- Reader's Guide -- Overview: The resilience of students with an immigrant background: Factors that shape well-being -- The resilience of students with an immigrant background -- Adversity and adjustment: The resilience of students with an immigrant background -- Individual characteristics and the resilience of students with an immigrant background -- Language barriers and the resilience of students with an immigrant background -- Resilience and the socio-economic status of students with an immigrant background -- How schools and education policy support or undermine student resilience -- What students with an immigrant background expect in their future -- Policies and practices to support the resilience of students with an immigrant background. "Australia and Switzerland are among the countries were immigrant students from all countries of origin with available data perform best. The ability of such countries to nurture students from diverse backgrounds stems form several factors, including the selectivity of their immigration policies, the overall quality of their education systems, the language of instruction, and the extent to which their societies have, historically been open to diversity." -- p. 106. "This report "reveals some of the difficulties students with an immigrant background encounter and where they receive the support they need. The report provides an in-depth analysis of the risk and protective factors that can undermine or promote the resilience of immigrant students. It explores the tole that education systems, schools and teachers can play in helping these students integrate into their communities, overcome adversity, and build their academic, social, emotional and motivational resilience." - Back cover. Includes bibliographical references. "This report "reveals some of the difficulties students with an immigrant background encounter and where they receive the support they need. The report provides an in-depth analysis of the risk and protective factors that can undermine or promote the resilience of immigrant students. It explores the tole that education systems, schools and teachers can play in helping these students integrate into their communities, overcome adversity, and build their academic, social, emotional and motivational resilience." - Back cover.