Christian Educational Journal
Volume 15, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 465-478
Colliding Ecosystems: Interpreting the Complex Social World of Adolescent Children of Immigrants (Article)
O’Keefe T.*
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Boston College School of Theology and MinistryMA, United States
Abstract
This article proposes Urie Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological theory of human development as an interpretive lens for recognizing the challenges presented to the adolescent children of immigrant adults. His ecological framework helps us recognize how these adolescents are caught between cultures and experience the cultural divide differently than their parents, elders, and Anglo age peers. It includes suggestions for how ministers might assist these adolescents and elders to bridge what divides them from each other and the culture. © The Author(s) 2018.
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DOI: 10.1177/0739891318805107
ISSN: 07398913
Original Language: English