What academic struggles will be happened on immigrant students? What kind of thoughts will be brought up to them? In The Happiness Hypothesis, Johnathan Haidt talks about negatively bias in “Changing Your Mind”. This chapter is the best to describe the situation of the immigrant students. According to Kim and Diaz in "Immigrant Students And
Community Colleges”, they state that “immigrant students who attend community colleges tend to have lower socioeconomic status and limited English knowledge compared to those who enter four-year institutions.” (93) Many immigrant students have to do part time and face demanding work at school. The most important is they only have limited knowledge in
English. My friend, as an immigrant student, she always found difficulty in her academic field in the first two years of school in United States. She worked very hard and checked every word that she didn’t familiar in, but she was still not getting a B or higher. Her sadness and hopelessness covered all her pleasure and she thought that she would never get a better grade next time.
The cognitive problem which immigrant students have is academic struggle. This can be explained in Haidt’s book in the chapter two of “Changing Your Mind”. The chapter states that human are easily to change thoughts as human mind is flexible. Human mind tends to react to bad things strongly and sensitively. Different perspectives affect how we see an event. At the same time, thought and emotion are related and affected to each other to influence our judgment. In the book, Haidt uses “elephant” and “rider” to represent human mind and human respectively. He uses these two metaphors to explain cognitive mind throughout all chapters. Lack of English kno...
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She describes it as “subtractive schooling,” a process in which students are left vulnerable to academic failure due to structural forces that impose on their ethnic identities and cultural backgrounds. The author explains that immigrants go through a dis-identification process, which seeks to Americanize them inadvertently forces minority status upon them. The division comes when their own ethnic identity of what it means to be Mexican to them is compromised. A prime example of this the use of linguistics and cultural practices. In the subtractive schooling process, all things Mexican or tied to the students’ identity is purposely diluted as is the use of the Spanish language. The concept of Mexicanidad becomes blurry as many Mexican/Mexican-American’s consider speaking Spanish as synonymous to what being Mexican is. In the subtractive schooling process, students are expected to know and speak English fluency, on the other hand in order to be considered truly Mexican they must also speak Spanish fluently. Many 2nd generational immigrants don’t fair as well as 1st generation because of the lack of bilingualism and biculturalism, skills that make the 1st generation more successful than the
Even if these students have achieved the highest honors and have the brains of an engineer, they aren’t able to reach their greatest potential because they simply do not have documents. Those who are undocumented are doomed to working backbreaking jobs that pay substantially below minimum wage. Spare Parts has challenged and shown me that it takes an immigrant double, or even triple the amount of toil to achieve anything in life. These boys endeavoured through adversities that many of us will never encounter. Luis luckily had a green card, but Lorenzo, Oscar, and Cristian were all living under the fear of deportation. They all wanted more after graduating from Carl Hayden but their dreams quickly vanished because the reality was that they’re illegal immigrants. When we hear the word “immigration”, we automatically think “illegal”, but what we don’t see is that these illegal immigrants are trying to reach their own American Dreams by coming to America. As the author includes Patrick J. Buchanan’s perspective on immigrants, “...families came to the United States to leech off government services.” (35), it shows us how immigrants are perceived.
The goal of this research is to find out why the immigrant students have to face more challenges in the level of education they achieve, the high level poverty that they face in their daily lives and all the confusing networks they have around them which they have no clue of how to utilize it. Also, the research focusses on the fewer resources immigrant students have while achieving their goals. The research question is important as it does affect all immigrant students and their respective families and not limited just to the immigrant. I am sure many families move to a different country to achieve better education and to make a brighter future for themselves and their loved ones. These families come with so much hope and faith, but in return they are bombarded with so much confusing information that it’s very easy for them to get lost and give up. At last, children are the future and if from being they don’t have the correct resources then how will they achieve their goals.
Monzó and Rueda (2009) conducted a study examining the concept of passing for English proficient in Latino immigrant children. They studied a group of Latino English language learners (ELLs) in and outside of school. They not only observed these students but also interviewed them as well. Within these interviews students opened up about their feelings about their first language, English, and their place in American society. Monzó and Rueda (2009) then found within their data the most common forms of passing for English proficient that these students used.
...her to feel despair. Her misery resulted in her doing unthinkable things such us the unexplainable bond with the woman in the wallpaper.
... are losing the opportunity to acquire more knowledge from their teachers who are more educated than their parents.
In this case, the author introduces the concept of perception. In this he implies that the manner in which we are thinking matters a lot because it’s a determination of out interpretation. This is evident because we tend to perceive things differently hence this is why we have different ways in which we think about things. For example if someone recognizes drugs to be associated with evil then such an individual might believe that those taking drugs are evil people (Myers, 2013). It might be entirely different in some cases where another individual might not be thinking the same. Another concept that is discussed is that we are always readily swayed by events rather than facts. It is because events tend to remind us of the life experiences that we undergo in life, which is an indication that the mind is affected by the glitches that might make it difficult to remember the fact that we come
1. Conflicting views improve one’s moral reasoning, critical thinking, and mental dexterity, but difficult to accept because of their context and one’s cognitive dissonance (Dalton, Week 5).
Students are unable to see themselves in the product of their work. Students’ labor is used to study, work on
One principle that I believe to be an ethical principle of persuasion is “liking”. A concept in the book that helps support
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Immigration is a complex process that results in a transformation of identity. Depending on contextual, individual, and societal differences this transformation can have either positive or detrimental results. Initially, the immigrant will be faced with an intense culture shock while settling into a new country. During this time, cognitive functioning becomes increasingly jumbled amidst the new context, resulting in immense identity confusion. This process of acculturation involves two specific issues regarding identity for each individual. These two issues include the delicate balance between remaining ethnically distinct by retaining their cultural identity and the desire to maintain positive relations with the new society. A variety of risk factors can contribute to the success or failure at effectively acculturating. Thus, those that directly experience more risk factors experience an even more delicate and complex transition often resulting in high levels of stress, confusion, social anxiety, and declined mental health.
...he exciting fact and our feeling of the same changes as they occur is the emotion.”
emotions. In a bid to reveal this, the philosophers investigate the nature of the two to define
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