Patricia Ngozi Anekwe

Broschiertes Buch

High-Achieving Second-Generation Nigerians in the United States

Navigating Multi-Contexts to Success

Beschreibung

High-Achieving Second-Generation Nigerians in the United States: Navigating Multi-Contexts to Success, examined the academic experiences of children of Nigerian immigrants to determine how they make sense of their academic experiences in the United States. Using surveys, in-depth interviews, and focus-group interviews of high-achieving children of Nigerian immigrants in the United States, the author explored the backgrounds of the youths, how they experienced education in the US, their educational and career aspirations, and the challenges they faced on their path to academic success. The book also examined how they overcame their challenges and included interviews of some of the parents to determine the role parents played in their children's success. Nigerian parents adopted some of the strategies their own parents utilized back home in Nigeria to motivate their children to academic success in the United States, often using what the author termed the gospel of education creed. The first of its kind, the book also documented how second-generation Nigerians navigate multiple identities and challenges to become successful in the United States. The author examined where participants are more than ten years later to determine whether they met the academic goals and the career aspirations they set earlier.

Autor

Scholars and writers have extolled the educational attainment levels of Nigerian immigrants in the United States. Nigerians in the United States are among the most highly educated, if not the most educated immigrant group in the country. While there is some literature about the educational achievements of Nigerian immigrants in the United States, there is a dearth of research on how their children-second-generation Nigerians-experience the educational terrain of the United States. That is where the author of this seminal work comes in. Patricia Anekwe immigrated to the United States from Nigeria in 1980. She is a mother of three adult children who collectively earned seven Ivy League degrees. A retired public urban high school educator with more than three decades' experience in the classroom and an educational leader, she has worked with thousands of young people of all races and ethnicities, some of whom were accepted into Ivy League and other elite colleges. Her experiences as a parent of high-achieving children and an educator in a large urban school district fueled her interest in minority students' academic achievements. She passionately believes that young people can reach great heights when parents, schools, and communities collaborate to meet their needs. Her immigrant background and membership in Nigerian organizations have given her insights into Nigerian culture as well as access to the interview participants. She holds a bachelor's degree in sociology and secondary education, a master's degree in sociology, and a doctorate in education. The research for this book was conducted in 2007 for her doctoral dissertation. The dissertation has proven to be timely and has been downloaded in all continents except Antarctica. The dissertation documented the academic experiences of high-achieving second-generation Nigerian youth and their mothers in the United States as they navigated multiple contexts on their path to success.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Naija Imprints
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 421g
• ISBN-13: 9781736369906
• ISBN-10: 1736369903
• Artikelnr.: 61676826