An Integrated Framework for Immigrant Children and Youth’s School Integration: A Focus on African Francophone Students in British Columbia – Canada
Abstract
However, few studies incorporate students’ view in providing a comprehensive definition of
immigrant children and youth’s school integration. The aim of this paper is to provide an
operational integrated guide, which may be useful for working with immigrant children and
youth students, as it takes into consideration the social, cultural, psychological and academic
dimensions of their school integration. This integrated guiding framework draws from a
five-year experience of community-university partnership. The methodology consists of a
review of the literature on the school integration of immigrant children and youth,
comprehensive interviews with students, parents and community partners (previous
publications by authors), and community’s involvement through a consultation process to
determine needs and priorities. The combined findings gathered from these sources are
formulated into practical recommendations to assist educators in their support of immigrant
children and youth’ school integration process.