Best practices and biggest obstacles in educating Hispanic migrant students
- UNCW Author/Contributor (non-UNCW co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Paula Gullion Lewis (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW )
- Web Site: http://library.uncw.edu/
- Advisor
- Karen Wetherill
Abstract: Hispanics are now the largest minority ethnic group in the United States. Many
Hispanics come to this country seeking migrant employment, moving from place to place, job to
job. Unfortunately, children of Hispanic migrants often encounter great difficulties in our
educational settings. Likewise, American educators generally experience problems in offering
quality education to Hispanic migrant students. Research has outlined the factors that are the
greatest barriers to educating Hispanic migrant students. The broad categories of obstacles as
defined by literature are language, culture, lack of parental involvement, and mobility.
Educators of these students are better prepared to instruct them when these obstacles are taken
into consideration and addressed with a number of changes in both policies and instructional
practices.
This study focused on schools within two school systems in rural southeastern North
Carolina. This research revealed the extent to which teachers recognized and experienced
obstacles to their instruction of Hispanic migrant students. The study also identified the current
practices teachers found to be effective as well as their recommendations for changes for
improvement. Results here support the conclusions that there are several factors that contribute
toward migrant educational difficulties, the most overwhelming of which is the language barrier.
While many practices that literature recommends to combat the obstacles of Hispanic migrant
education were found to be in place and effective, other suggestions for improvement have not
been implemented.
Specific recommendations for change have been made based on the findings of both the
current literature and the research conducted.
Best practices and biggest obstacles in educating Hispanic migrant students
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Thesis
- A Thesis Submitted to the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Education
- Language: English
- Date: 2009
- Keywords
- Children of immigrants--Education--United States, Children of migrant laborers--Education--United States, Mexican Americans--Education
- Subjects
- Children of migrant laborers -- Education -- United States
- Children of immigrants -- Education -- United States
- Mexican Americans -- Education