Résilience scolaire chez les élèves allophones du primaire récemment immigrés
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).
Educational resilience Allophony Recent immigration Deprivation Socio-educational adaptation Integration Educational success