EXAMINING EDUCATORS’ PERSPECTIVES OF EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES FOR SUPPORT OF CHINESE AMERICAN ADOLESCENTS LIVING WITH ONLY MOTHERS: HELPING WITH SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING
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2023-05
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This study examined the educators’ perspectives on effective strategies to support the social-emotional learning of Chinese American adolescents living with only mothers in the U.S. This study used quasi-sequential mixed-methods phenomenological research including qualitative research and quantitative research. Participants were administrators, teachers and counselors from K-12 schools in California and the other states of the nation. Both qualitative and quantitative data were collected through snowballing sampling procedures. For quantitative research, Google Form was used for the survey questionnaire and the statistical data analysis. For qualitative research, interviews were conducted. A coding software called Delve was used for qualitative data analysis. In addition to Delve, the Data Analysis Spiral (Creswell, 2018) was also used from organizing the data, classifying codes into themes, developing interpretations to representing and visualizing the data.
Chinese American adolescents living with only mothers in the U.S. were observed with various social-emotional and behavioral problems. This study verified the needs for educators to pay attention and support this particular group of Chinese American adolescents and their single mothers. Through this study, the researcher discovered some effective strategies that educators used to help support Chinese American adolescents and their single mothers. This study also brought attention to parents, especially those who have Chinese American adolescents living with only mothers in the U.S., to be mindful of their adolescents’ social-emotional issues. The results of this study validate the need for parents to adopt some of the strategies discussed here to
help support their Chinese American adolescents not just academically, but socially and emotionally.
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