African Immigrant Students and Postsecondary Education in Canada: High School Teachers and School Career Counsellors as Gatekeepers

Shizha, Edward; Abdi, Ali A.; Wilson-Forsberg, Stacey; Masakure, Oliver

doi:10.1353/ces.2020.0025

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“…A study by Shizha, Abdi, Wilson-Forsberg and Masakure (2020) discovered that guidance and counseling programme in learning institutions helps learners to integrate their skills, interests and values and thus establish their total potential. All these are propelled towards enhancing the selfimage of the learners and helping better accomplishment in academic performance.…”

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Effect of Guidance and Counseling on the Students’ Academic Performance in Bulgaria

2022

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Guidance and counselling are integral parts of modern academic programmes. Guidance and counselling form a crucial part of Bulgaria's education system and aid in shaping learners' behaviour and instilling proper discipline. Thus, the study sought to examine the effect of guidance and counselling on students' academic performance in Bulgaria. The target population was 628 learners from Zlatarski International School of Sofia. The study used a simple random sampling technique to collect the data. The collection of the data was done using questionnaires. The study results showed that guidance and counselling explain 25.8% of Bulgaria's academic performance variations. It was revealed that guidance and counselling is positively and significantly related to academic performance (β=0.489, p=0.006). The findings indicated that when the guidance and counselling increase by one unit, the academic performance will increase by 0.489 units while holding other factors that influence academic performance constantly. Counselling programs prevent educational, individual, social, psychological and emotional issues. Lack of guidance and counselling leads to bad morals and behaviour. This includes school dropouts, substance use, criminal offences and failure to keep jobs. The work of educational guidance and counselling is to allow a learner to change themselves together with their studies by improving their study perspective and getting rid of subject matter challenges. The study recommended guidance programmes should be embedded in the curriculum of schools. School heads should establish an evaluation register for a learner for counselling.

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Effect of Guidance and Counseling on the Students’ Academic Performance in Bulgaria

2022

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“…These biases determine students' academic success and entrance into post-secondary institutions. With specific reference to Canadian research based in Southern Ontario, Shizha et al (2020) investigated the ways in which newcomer students, particularly those of African origin, are discouraged from pursuing school curricula that would otherwise guide them towards their desired career aspirations. This discouragement, however, is attributed to systemic structures in schools whereby teachers and career counsellors hold negative, racist, and prejudicial stereotypes about not only African students themselves, but also their abilities, intelligence, success, and academic performance (Shizha et al, 2020).…”

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“…With specific reference to Canadian research based in Southern Ontario, Shizha et al (2020) investigated the ways in which newcomer students, particularly those of African origin, are discouraged from pursuing school curricula that would otherwise guide them towards their desired career aspirations. This discouragement, however, is attributed to systemic structures in schools whereby teachers and career counsellors hold negative, racist, and prejudicial stereotypes about not only African students themselves, but also their abilities, intelligence, success, and academic performance (Shizha et al, 2020). What remains significant is that the presence of institutional racism, coupled with the streaming of youth, has been profoundly accentuated by the Black Lives Matter movement and protests that voice inequities related to systemic racism of African youth.…”

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Narratives of Systemic Barriers and Accessibility: Poverty, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and the Call for a Post-Pandemic New Normal

Parker

Conversano

2021

Front. Educ.

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This paper captures the intimate, intensely lived, and storied experiences during the pandemic, on teachers’ narratives of teaching and education. The narratives illuminate deep knowledge and insight into pre-existing school systemic barriers prior to the pandemic, and how those same barriers are magnified during the pandemic in what has become a global watershed moment that calls for equity reform in school systems. A narrative theoretical framework is used, as well as an ethic of care framework that informs the study. Issues of poverty, diversity, equity, and inclusion are illuminated, with further focus on topics of technology access, streaming, resilience, and teacher-student identity and relationship. Recommendations to eradicate systemic barriers in schools are explored, highlighting suggestions for equity reform in areas that include: enhancing professional practice; building a school culture of care, and; developing partnerships and relationships.

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“…Understanding such perceptions of their experiences is important because the educational achievement of newcomer youth is an indicator of integration into a host society (Strang & Ager, 2010). It is also a settlement goal for parents of immigrant and refugee youth (Harris & Marlowe, 2011) and a means to achieve employment and future careers for youths themselves (Lawson-Sticklor, 2018;Shizha et al, 2020;Stuit & Springer, 2010;Wilkinson et al, 2014). However, newcomers tend to experience disadvantages in the Canadian educational system that impact their educational outcomes.…”

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School Environment and Academic Persistence of Newcomer Students: The Roles of Teachers and Peers

Nakhaie¹,

Ramos

Fakih

2022

Journal of Teaching and Learning

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This paper explores the relationship between the social context of schools, measured in terms of perceptions of teacher support and students’ openness to diversity, and the academic persistence of immigrant and refugee newcomer students. It investigates whether newcomer adolescents’ academic persistence varies by the perceived supportiveness of school environments. Based on data collected from newcomer students in a medium-sized city in Canada, results show that immigrant and refugee youth display higher academic persistence when they perceive that their teachers support them and when their fellow students are receptive to diversity. Specifically, newcomer youth’s educational success depends on a school environment that encourages diversity and inter-group relations and teachers who are supportive of students, encourage them, and believe in them. This study also shows that newcomer youth are more likely to academically persist in school when they perceive that their fellow schoolmates exhibit cultural humility or openness to diversity and thus are interested in knowing more about immigrants’ country of origin, respect them, and interact with them.

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African Immigrant Students and Postsecondary Education in Canada: High School Teachers and School Career Counsellors as Gatekeepers

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Effect of Guidance and Counseling on the Students’ Academic Performance in Bulgaria

Effect of Guidance and Counseling on the Students’ Academic Performance in Bulgaria

Narratives of Systemic Barriers and Accessibility: Poverty, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and the Call for a Post-Pandemic New Normal

School Environment and Academic Persistence of Newcomer Students: The Roles of Teachers and Peers

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