This thesis forwards the concept of “diasporic epistemology” in order to better understand how Filipino Canadian young males make sense of their educational success and failure. Diasporic epistemology means a dual frame of reference created by the intersection of both structural and cultural conditions specific to a particular diaspora. To investigate this concept, I examined the interview transcripts of six Filipino Canadian young men using the constructivist approach to grounded theory. My research reveals that school structure and Filipino consciousness play a significant role in educational success and failure. Situating my thesis within the academic fields of epistemology, intersectionality, and student achievement, I contend that understanding the diasporic epistemology of racialized minority and immigrant students challenges certain truism in educational research, such as current belief that family’s socio-economic status and parental education are predictors of students’ academic success. The implications for education are greater teacher-student-home relationships and alternative schooling methods

Experiences of shame, such as feelings of failure, scorn, ridicule, and embarrassment, all impact a student's successful mastery of academic skills. To identify and understand the shame experiences that impact a student's success, as told from the student's perspective, and determine which factors contribute most to student success, the lenses of the shame resiliency theory and self-determination theory were utilized. This phenomenological qualitative research study explored the struggles associated with shame that students who attended and graduated from a school-of-choice alternative school experienced. In addition, it examined the factors, experiences, and/or constructs related to social and emotional well-being and resiliency that students who attended and graduated from a school-of-choice alternative school identified as most salient regarding their ability to progress through their secondary school years, achieve educational success, and ultimately, graduate from high school. The results of this study add to the body of evidence that supports a shift in the education program from a focus on assessment to SE support for the whole child. Addressing students' academic needs are but one piece of the puzzle. Meeting their social and emotional needs may, however, be even more important, both in the short-term and the long-term for all students, regardless of the types of schools they attend.

The purpose of this research was to investigate factors that influence academic achievement in high school. This study gathered data directly from high school students themselves. This research study utilized a mixed-methods design by blending quantitative analysis from survey data and qualitative analysis from in-depth interviews. The data collected in this study drew from students in three different high schools in the greater Philadelphia area and one high school in located in Harrisburg, PA. In total, 44 high school students responded to the survey and five students volunteered to participate in a follow-up interview.The research uncovered factors that influenced student educational aspirations such as parental influence, the student’s self-efficacy, and involvement in school activities. Most interestingly, the findings revealed that on average, the percentage of female students with aspirations for a higher educational degree (such as a M.D., J.D., or Ph.D.) was greater than males. On a percentage basis, a greater number of males aspired to attain a college degree than females. Additionally, the data also determined that as the number of proximal personnel that support the student’s attainment of a college degree increases by one, the student’s educational aspirations also increased by one year beyond high school, as well. The research findings also highlighted the importance of administrator visibility as a factor that positively impacted student success. In addition to uncovering key influences that impact student achievement, this research sought direct reflection from high school students about their perceptions of academic success. Lastly, a small but important part of this research was devoted to investigating how the Covid-19 pandemic impacted student’s educational experience. It is hoped that the findings from this study can be harnessed to inform educational leaders. / Educational Leadership

Cette recherche porte sur la situation des élèves dysphasiques au Québec. En effet, l’identification de leur trouble, l’accessibilité à des services adaptés et la scolarisation de ces élèves a connu, à travers les années, quelques problèmes. Actuellement, 66,40% des élèves dysphasiques sévères au Québec ne sont pas scolarisés en classe ordinaire (MELS, 2008b). Une partie d’entre eux se retrouve dans des classes de langage aussi appelées classes de communication. Ce milieu de scolarisation fait partie du niveau 5 du système en cascade proposé dans le rapport COPEX (MEQ, 1976). Ce type de service a été mis en place afin de répondre, entre autres, aux besoins particuliers de la population d’élèves dysphasiques sévères. Par contre, leur efficacité par rapport à la réussite éducative de ces élèves n’est toujours pas évaluée. La recension des écrits a permis l’approfondissement des éléments-clés de la recherche, soit la dysphasie, la classe de langage et l’efficacité. Cette même recension a permis à la chercheuse de se positionner par rapport au cadre méthodologique utilisé. Ainsi, cette étude qualitative de type exploratoire vise à aller chercher sur le terrain des informations concernant l’efficacité des classes de langage. Celles-ci ont été collectées en utilisant principalement l’entretien individuel, le questionnaire ayant plutôt servi à collecter des informations factuelles sur les participants. Les personnes questionnées, qui sont au nombre de neuf, sont les principaux agents qui gravitent autour de l’élève dysphasique sévère fréquentant une classe de langage : les parents, les enseignants et les orthophonistes. Les résultats permettent une avancée dans la recherche pour ce qui est des effets de la classe de langage sur la réussite éducative des élèves dysphasiques sévères. / This research focuses on the situation of dysphasic students in Quebec. Indeed, the identification of their disorder, the accessibility to appropriate services and the education of these students had, over the years, some problems. Currently, 66,40 % of dysphasic students in Quebec are not in a regular class (MELS, 2008a). Some of them are in language classroom also called communication classroom. This education environment is part of the services for students with handicaps or learning or adjustment difficulties proposed in COPEX report (MEQ, 1976). However, their effectiveness in educational success of these students is not evaluated. The literature review allowed the deepening of key elements of this research: dysphasia, language classroom and effectiveness. This same literature review allowed the researcher position relative to the methodological framework used. Thus, this qualitative study of exploratory type aims to get in schools information about the effectiveness of language classroom. These were collected using mainly individual interview, questionnaire rather used to gather factual information about participants. The people interviewed are the principal actors around the dysphasic children: parents, teachers and speech therapists. The results allow a step forward in the research for effects of language classroom on the educational success of dysphasic children.

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From a qualitative point of view, this study had a public school teacher as a research collaborator with over 25 years of experience in teaching literacy, in which the senses were analyzed according to the meaning core methodology (Aguiar and Ozella, 2005). Inspired by this methodology, interviews mostly with the teacher, and some instruments, such as complementing sentence technique, choice of engraving, writing report of life path, word box and text ideas confrontation were used as procedures for collecting information . In the data analysis, nine meaning cores emerged and ensured access to the senses and meanings of the teacher concerning the educational success. Among the considerations that led this research, it is highlighted four aspects, understood as fundamentals and because they reflect the senses and meanings that the teacher assigns to the educational success / failure. These aspects are: 1) educational success is a condition that results from the student's family life, 2) the student in an educational success condition is docile, obedient and rule follower, 3) the successful student does not need a teacher, 4) success is an effort result. Our senses and meanings are not even known by us or easily accessed mainly because they are complex structures that exist within a historic-cultural movement that incorporates multiple determinations. By knowing teacher senses, we can meet their constitutive mediations and also the process by which was meant their educational success and failure understanding in their school trajectory and thus, produce a potentially important knowledge for all those who want to know better the teacher, contribute to their training qualification / Esta pesquisa tem o objetivo de apreender os sentidos e significados de uma professora de escola pública sobre o sucesso escolar, compreendido a partir da relação entre sucesso e o seu reverso, o fracasso. Para tanto, a psicologia sócio-histórica constituiu o referencial teórico e metodológico deste trabalho. Os estudos de Vygotski (1998, 2001, 2002) sobre as categorias sentido e significado foram de grande relevância em todo o processo da pesquisa. Juntamente com este autor, as contribuições de Aguiar (1997, 2002, 2005), Ozella (2006), Heller (2000), Bock (2005), Gonzáles Rey (2002, 2003, 2005) e Charlot (2005) serviram de importante referência para a análise do tema abordado. Nosso estudo, de cunho qualitativo, teve como colaboradora da pesquisa uma professora de escola pública com mais de 25 anos de experiência no magistério com classes de alfabetização, sobre a qual os sentidos foram analisados de acordo com a metodologia dos núcleos de significação (Aguiar e Ozella, 2006). Inspirados nessa metodologia foram usados como procedimentos de coleta de informações, prioritariamente as entrevistas com a professora, além de alguns instrumentos como técnica de complementar frases, escolha de gravura, relato escrito da trajetória de vida, caixa de palavras e confronto de idéias a partir de texto. No processo de análise das informações nove núcleos de significação emergiram e possibilitaram o acesso aos sentidos e significados da professora sobre o sucesso escolar. Dentre as considerações que esta pesquisa permitiu, destacamos quatro aspectos, por compreendermos como fundamentais e por refletirem os sentidos e significados que a professora atribui ao sucesso/fracasso escolar. São eles: 1) o sucesso escolar é uma condição que resulta da vida familiar do aluno; 2) o aluno em situação de sucesso escolar é dócil, obediente, segue regras; 3) o aluno com sucesso não precisa da professora; 4) sucesso é resultado do esforço. Nossos sentidos e significados nem sempre são conhecidos por nós ou facilmente acessados, em geral são construções complexas que existem dentro de um movimento histórico-cultural que integra múltiplas determinações. Conhecendo os sentidos do professor podemos conhecer as mediações que lhe são constitutivas e bem como o processo pelo qual foi significada sua compreensão de sucesso e fracasso escolar na sua trajetória educacional e, assim, produzir um conhecimento potencialmente importante para todos aqueles que pretendem, conhecendo melhor o professor, contribuir para a qualificação da sua formação

Cette recherche porte sur la situation des élèves dysphasiques au Québec. En effet, l’identification de leur trouble, l’accessibilité à des services adaptés et la scolarisation de ces élèves a connu, à travers les années, quelques problèmes. Actuellement, 66,40% des élèves dysphasiques sévères au Québec ne sont pas scolarisés en classe ordinaire (MELS, 2008b). Une partie d’entre eux se retrouve dans des classes de langage aussi appelées classes de communication. Ce milieu de scolarisation fait partie du niveau 5 du système en cascade proposé dans le rapport COPEX (MEQ, 1976). Ce type de service a été mis en place afin de répondre, entre autres, aux besoins particuliers de la population d’élèves dysphasiques sévères. Par contre, leur efficacité par rapport à la réussite éducative de ces élèves n’est toujours pas évaluée. La recension des écrits a permis l’approfondissement des éléments-clés de la recherche, soit la dysphasie, la classe de langage et l’efficacité. Cette même recension a permis à la chercheuse de se positionner par rapport au cadre méthodologique utilisé. Ainsi, cette étude qualitative de type exploratoire vise à aller chercher sur le terrain des informations concernant l’efficacité des classes de langage. Celles-ci ont été collectées en utilisant principalement l’entretien individuel, le questionnaire ayant plutôt servi à collecter des informations factuelles sur les participants. Les personnes questionnées, qui sont au nombre de neuf, sont les principaux agents qui gravitent autour de l’élève dysphasique sévère fréquentant une classe de langage : les parents, les enseignants et les orthophonistes. Les résultats permettent une avancée dans la recherche pour ce qui est des effets de la classe de langage sur la réussite éducative des élèves dysphasiques sévères. / This research focuses on the situation of dysphasic students in Quebec. Indeed, the identification of their disorder, the accessibility to appropriate services and the education of these students had, over the years, some problems. Currently, 66,40 % of dysphasic students in Quebec are not in a regular class (MELS, 2008a). Some of them are in language classroom also called communication classroom. This education environment is part of the services for students with handicaps or learning or adjustment difficulties proposed in COPEX report (MEQ, 1976). However, their effectiveness in educational success of these students is not evaluated. The literature review allowed the deepening of key elements of this research: dysphasia, language classroom and effectiveness. This same literature review allowed the researcher position relative to the methodological framework used. Thus, this qualitative study of exploratory type aims to get in schools information about the effectiveness of language classroom. These were collected using mainly individual interview, questionnaire rather used to gather factual information about participants. The people interviewed are the principal actors around the dysphasic children: parents, teachers and speech therapists. The results allow a step forward in the research for effects of language classroom on the educational success of dysphasic children.

La Réussite éducative est un dispositif mis en place en 2005 visant à aider les enfants en « fragilité » de deux à seize ans scolarisés ou domiciliés dans les territoires en Politique de la Ville. Loin d’être seulement un dispositif d’aide éducative, la Réussite éducative est aussi un instrument de réforme. Cette thèse répond à deux questions : comment un dispositif extérieur à l’Éducation nationale réforme la politique éducative et quelles sont les implications de la réforme portée par la Réussite éducative.Nous mobilisons dans un premier temps la sociologie des instruments de l’action publique et nous présentons notamment les ambiguïtés de la Réussite éducative, son déploiement et sa carrière. Il s’agit alors de comprendre comment ce dispositif est devenu à la fois un instrument éducatif et un instrument de réforme, comme celui-ci s’implante localement, et comment il évolue selon les différents contextes.La Réussite éducative porte une recomposition de la politique éducative accordant une place accrue aux associations et aux collectivités territoriales. Cette recomposition implique des changements dans les modalités d’emploi et de travail dans la politique éducative que nous étudions en mobilisant les analyses sur les processus d’invisibilisation du travail.Au carrefour d’une sociologie de l’action publique et de ses instruments, du travail et du monde associatif, cette thèse aspire à être une contribution à l’analyse de la Nouvelle Gestion Publique dans le secteur éducatif. / "Educational Success" is a political device that was set up in 2005. It aims at helping children between two and sixteen years who are labelled as "weak" in the local territories where urban policies are set up. Far from being only a help to the children’s education, it is also a tool of reform. This thesis answers two questions: how does a device that is external to the national system of education reform the politics of education, and what are the implications of the reform it implements. Through a sociology of the instruments of public action, we will present the ambiguities of "Educational Success", its expansion, and its career. We will explain how this tool of reform was established locally and how it evolved according to various elements of context. Educational Success reconfigures educational policies through an approach based on local authorities and associative organisations. This implies changes in the terms of employment of its actors and, namely, a process of making their work "invisible". At the crossroad between public action sociology, sociology of work and sociology of associations, this thesis contributes to the analysis of the New Public Management in the educative field.

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Chaque année, un nombre considérable d’élèves récemment immigrés intègrent les écoles du Québec. Pour ces jeunes, les risques de faire face à des difficultés socioscolaires sont potentiellement élevés, en particulier chez ceux pour qui des facteurs tels que l’allophonie et la défavorisation s’additionnent. De nombreuses recherches soulignent la réussite de l’adaptation socioscolaire de plusieurs de ces élèves, mais il demeure que d’autres jeunes éprouvent des difficultés et il est capital de chercher à mieux comprendre comment les accompagner à travers ce processus. L’objectif général de cette recherche est de décrire le phénomène de la résilience scolaire chez des jeunes allophones du primaire récemment immigrés dans le but de savoir comment mieux soutenir leur intégration sociale ainsi que leur réussite scolaire. Le concept de la résilience a été employé comme cadre théorique afin de capter le caractère systémique de l’intégration socioscolaire de ces élèves immigrants qui, à leur arrivée, ne maîtrisent pas le français. Les résultats de l’analyse de nos données révèlent que les caractéristiques qui ont soutenu l’adaptation socioscolaire des jeunes que nous avons rencontrés appartiennent à quatre catégories : l’élève (motivation scolaire et importance accordée aux études en général, volonté d’apprentissage du français), son environnement familial (intérêt porté par les parents à l’éducation de l’enfant, discours positif du parent quant à l’éducation), son environnement extra-familial (lieux de culte et espaces d’épanouissement socioculturel pour le jeune, organismes communautaires, adultes significatifs qui peuvent soutenir la résilience du jeune) et son vécu scolaire (enseignants engagés, disponibles, qui inspirent confiance et qui sont outillés, climat psychosocial positif en classe et à l’école). / Every year a considerable number of recently immigrated students attend the schools of Quebec. For these students, the risk of facing socio-educational difficulties is potentially high, particularly for those who are allophones and living in deprivation. Several studies highlight success of socio-educational adaptation of numerous students, but it still remains that others have difficulties and it is capital to look into better understanding how to best support them through this journey. The general objective of this research is to describe the phenomenon of educational resilience in young allophones in elementary schools who have recently immigrated in order to know how to better foster and support their social integration and educational success. The concept of resilience was used as the theoretical framework in order to capture the systemic character of socio-educational integration of these immigrant students, who at their arrival do not master the French language. The results of the data analysis show that the characteristics that have supported the socio-educational adaptation of the students we have met with, can be organized in four categories: the student (educational motivation and the importance placed on education in general, the will to learn French), his/her family environment (parents’ interest in the child’s education, parents’ positive discourse in regards to education), his/her environment outside the family (places of worship and spaces for socio-cultural development, community organisations, significant adults who can support the child’s resilience) and his/her school experience (involved and available teachers, who inspire trust and are appropriately equipped, positive psychosocial climate in class and in school).

Cette recherche vise à documenter l’expérience scolaire des élèves québécois d’origine chinoise à l’école secondaire de langue française et à examiner les dynamiques qui influencent la réussite scolaire de ces élèves. Elle s’intéresse plus précisément aux impacts des facteurs relatifs à l’école, à la famille immigrante, et à ceux de la communauté ethnique sur l’intégration de ces jeunes dans un contexte francophone. Les données ont été principalement recueillies à travers des entretiens semi-structurés approfondis auprès d’élèves d’origine chinoise et de différents acteurs du paradigme éducatif (parents, acteurs scolaires et intervenants communautaires). D’autres instruments, tels que l’analyse du contenu de documents et de médias, ont également été utilisés afin de fournir des informations contextuelles et d’enrichir les données d’entrevues. Les données ont été analysées selon un cadre théorique ouvert et inclusif où la réussite scolaire des élèves issus de l’immigration est mesurée en mettant l’accent sur l’influence de la maîtrise de la langue d’enseignement, du capital culturel et social de la famille et de la communauté immigrante, ainsi que des facteurs systémiques au niveau de l’école. Les résultats de cette étude dans trois écoles cibles montrent qu’en général les élèves d’origine chinoise connaissent une expérience positive, surtout en ce qui concerne leur performance scolaire en mathématiques et sciences. Cependant, les nouveaux arrivants ont tendance à éprouver des difficultés dans l’apprentissage du français et pour leur intégration sociale. En effet, le processus d’intégration socioscolaire des jeunes chinois est sous l’influence des différents milieux qu’ils fréquentent. À propos de l’influence des dynamiques scolaires, les résultats de la recherche indiquent qu’une relation maître-élève positive joue un rôle important dans la réussite éducative de ces élèves. Toutefois, l’insuffisance du soutien à l’apprentissage défavorise l’intégration linguistique et sociale des élèves nouvellement arrivés. Les données de cette étude soulignent notamment le rôle de la famille immigrante et de la communauté ethnique dans l’expérience scolaire de ces jeunes. D’une part, sous l’impact des dynamiques familiales, notamment ce qui à trait au projet migratoire, à la culture chinoise et à l’expérience pré- et post-migratoire, les parents immigrants chinois s’impliquent activement dans les études de leurs enfants, malgré des barrières linguistiques et culturelles. D’autre part, afin de surmonter les effets négatifs des faibles liens entretenus avec l’école de langue française, les parents chinois ont largement recours aux ressources au sein de la communauté ethnique, tels que les médias de langue chinoise, les organismes ethnospécifiques de services aux immigrants, l’école du samedi et les institutions religieuses ethniques. Ces institutions sociales ethniques contribuent à soutenir les valeurs culturelles, échanger des informations, établir des modèles pour les jeunes et à fournir des services appropriés en matière culturelle et linguistique. / This study seeks to document the educational experience of students of Chinese origin in Quebec French high schools and to examine the dynamics influencing their academic achievement. More specifically, it explores the impact of school context, Chinese immigrant families, and the ethnic community on the socioeducational integration of these youth in a French-speaking context. Data were collected mainly through semi-structured in-depth interviews with students of Chinese origin as well as different actors holding educational roles (immigrant parents as well as school and community practitioners). Other instruments, such as document review and media content analysis, were also adopted to provide background information and to enrich the interview data. Data were analysed according to an open and inclusive framework evaluating the academic achievement of immigrant students with a main focus on the influence of the proficiency in the language of instruction, cultural and social capital of the immigrant family and community, and systemic factors at the school level. The research findings show that students of Chinese origin in the three target schools generally have positive school experience, especially in terms of their performance in mathematics and sciences. However, some of them, new arrivals in particular, seem to encounter some difficulties in learning French and social integration. Indeed, the process of socioeducational integration of Chinese youth is influenced by diverse milieus that they occupy. Regarding the influence of school dynamics, the results of this study indicate that positive teacher-student relationships play an important role in the educational success of Chinese origin students. Nonetheless, the insufficient learning support services diminish the linguistic and social integration of newly arrived Chinese immigrant students. The research data highlight in particular the role of immigrant family and the ethnic community in shaping the school experience of Chinese youth. On the one hand, with the impact of family dynamics, including migration project, Chinese culture, as well as pre-and post-migration experiences, Chinese parents are involved actively in their children’s schooling, in spite of their language and cultural barriers. On the other hand, to overcome the negative effects of loose connections with mainstream French schools, Chinese parents rely largely on ethnic community-based resources, such as Chinese language media, ethnospecific immigrant service organizations, Chinese supplementary schools, and ethnic religious institutions. These ethnic social institutions contribute to support cultural values, exchange information, establish role-modes for the youth, and provide culturally as well as linguistically appropriate services.