Toward Cultural/Ecological Perspectives on Schooling and Achievement in African- and Asian-American Children

Slaughter-Defoe, Diana T.; Nakagawa, Kathryn; Takanishi, Ruby; Johnson, Deborah J.

doi:10.2307/1131098

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“…Families in Black communities have long valued education for their children, sometimes beyond opportunity (Billingsley, 1992;Clark, 1983). Education has often been perceived as the singular hope of Black families for escaping meager beginnings (Farley & Allen, 1987;Slaughter, Nakagawa, Takanishi, & Johnson, 1990). As such, mothers may see developmentally based early child care, such as Head Start, as a way of promoting early educational goals for their children.…”

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Studying the Effects of Early Child Care Experiences on the Development of Children of Color in the United States: Toward a More Inclusive Research Agenda

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Evidence is presented of the different cultural and ecological contexts affecting early child care for families of color. It is argued that improvements on previous research require a fundamental shift in how race, ethnicity, and culture as psychological variables are examined. Furthermore, to avoid the pitfalls and failures of previous research, new research must incorporate expanded models of child care and development in childhood. The integrative model of development for children of color proposed by Garcia Coll et al. (1996) is presented as a basis for developing more specific ecological models relevant to addressing child care issues in ethnic minority families. Finally, priority areas for future research are recommended to stimulate and enable child care researchers to adopt a more inclusive view of child care and its effects.

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“…Rather, more recent immigrant children may follow different trajectories of adaptation that have discrepant outcomes across racial/ethnic groups (Portes & Zhou, 1993;Zhou, 1997). Disentangling immigrant status and race/ ethnicity (among other factors) is a critical next step in elucidating theories of development among children of color (Slaughter-Defoe, Nakagawa, Takanishi, & Johnson, 1990).…”

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Immigrant Differences in School‐Age Children's Verbal Trajectories: A Look at Four Racial/Ethnic Groups

2006

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This study explored inter- and intraindividual immigrant group differences in children's English verbal ability over ages 6-16 in 4 racial/ethnic groups-White Americans, Black Americans, Mexican Americans, and Puerto Ricans (N=2,136). Although all children's mean verbal scores increased with age, immigrant children (except for Black Americans) had lower scores than respective nonimmigrant children. In contrast, immigrant children (except for Mexican Americans) had more persistent verbal growth into adolescence than respective nonimmigrant children. Family resources moderately accounted for immigrant differences in children's mean verbal scores only. The findings support different theoretical models for understanding inter- and intraindividual immigrant differences in achievement. Mexican-American immigrants and Black American nonimmigrants were struggling and merit policy attention.

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“…how families and youth are affected by the immediate environment and culture surrounding them. They are particularly valuable in understanding and interpreting ethnic comparisons of family interactions (Bronfenbrenner, 1986;Harrison, Wilson, Pine, Chan, & Buriel, 1990;McLoyd, 1990;Ogbu, 1981;Slaughter-Defoe, Nakagawa, Takanishi, & Johnson, 1992;Spencer & Dornbusch, 1990;Steinberg, Dombusch, & Brown, 1992;Wilson, 1987).…”

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Ethnicity and Community Context as Moderators of the Relations between Family Decision Making and Adolescent Adjustment

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1996

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This study investigated whether the impact of 3 types of family decision making on the adjustment of 14–16‐year‐old youth was moderated by ethnicity, community context, or both. For joint and unilateral youth decision making, community context interacted with ethnicity in 3 patterns of influence: for Hispanic‐American youth, variations in decision making had a stronger impact in ethnically mixed than in predominantly white communities; for African‐American youth, the negative impact of unilateral youth decision making was stronger in predominantly white communities; and for Asian‐ and European‐American youth, community context did not make a difference. For unilateral parental decision making, the popular hypothesis that apparent ethnic differences in the influence of parental strictness on adolescent adjustment are primarily due to differences in community context was not supported. Rather, the positive impact of unilateral parental decision making was similar among African‐American youth living in predominantly white, and more affluent, communities or in more disadvantaged, ethnically mixed neighborhoods. The negative impact of authoritarian parenting was similar among European‐American youth living in less advantaged communities as well as more affluent ones. There was no relation between unilateral parental control and adolescent adjustment of Asian‐ or Hispanic‐American youth in either type of community.

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Toward Cultural/Ecological Perspectives on Schooling and Achievement in African- and Asian-American Children

Cited by 108 publications

References 38 publications

Studying the Effects of Early Child Care Experiences on the Development of Children of Color in the United States: Toward a More Inclusive Research Agenda

Studying the Effects of Early Child Care Experiences on the Development of Children of Color in the United States: Toward a More Inclusive Research Agenda

Immigrant Differences in School‐Age Children's Verbal Trajectories: A Look at Four Racial/Ethnic Groups

Ethnicity and Community Context as Moderators of the Relations between Family Decision Making and Adolescent Adjustment

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