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Download full textShuey, Elizabeth A.; Leventhal, Tama – Grantee Submission, 2018
Neighborhoods constitute a microsystem theorized to be of great importance for immigrant families, with the potential to support and facilitate families' transitions to life in the United States. Yet, few studies examine immigrants' perceptions of their neighborhoods and the extent to which different aspects of these neighborhoods, such as safety…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Immigrants, Young Children, Low Income Groups
Rowntree, Helen W. – 1973
In this manual for volunteers working with Puerto Rican children in Boston, background information is provided about Puerto Rican history and culture. In addition, a detailed description of the Puerto Rican community in Boston is included. There is a short description of the bilingual education program in Massachusetts and a longer description of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Case Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
Dulay, Heidi; Shultz, Jeffrey – 1972
Communication between students and teachers is a basic requirement for learning to take place in a classroom. Like words and phrases, behaviors carry specific meanings which may vary across cultures. When teachers are not aware of cultural differences, when they assume that a behavior has a particular meaning while students assume it has another,…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Communication Problems
Peer reviewedHidalgo, Nitza M. – Education and Urban Society, 1997
Examines the adaptations of Puerto Rican families in inner-city neighborhoods in response to forces affecting their parenting and community experiences by studying the meaning of community in four Puerto Rican families in Boston (Massachusetts). Community is seen to have relational, functional, and confrontational dimensions. (SLD)
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adjustment (to Environment), Community, Cultural Differences
Goodale, Ellen, Comp. – 1974
This paper focuses on the Bilingual Department of the Boston Public Schools and how with the financial and technical support of the Institute for Learning and Teaching, funded in part under Title VII of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, it devised effective inservice training programs for bilingual teachers. Two points are of particular…
Descriptors: Administrators, Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Curriculum Development
Nuttall, Ronald L.; Nuttall, Ena Vazquez – 1975
This study examined the effects of family size on a sample of some 5000 students in Bayamon, Puerto Rico and examined the effects of family size and spacing on some 537 families in four suburban towns near Boston. It was found that there were major effects of both socio-economic status and religion on family size, but that the direction of the…
Descriptors: Birth Order, Birth Rate, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences
