Restorying one's life

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2009
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Much immigrant youth research focuses on language acquisition but other factors are important contributors to immigrant youth success, including utilizing ontological narrative and resilience strategies. Ontological narrative is the process of storying one's life, providing coherence and continuity to one's experience. Recent resilience research emphasizes the unique negotiation of tensions such as access to material resources, relationships, identity, power and control, cultural adherence, social justice and cohesion. Collectively, these strategies enable immigrant youth to address more effectively the barriers and challenges typically associated with the immigrant experience. Recommendations include that English as an Additional Language (EAL) curriculum must provide space and voice for personal narrative. Second, similar to other transformative programs, an archetypal template needs to be created to guide immigrant students through the transformative process. Through the compiling and sharing of a series of authentic, local immigrant stories, both of these recommendations can be accomplished.
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Bibliography: p. 78-89
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Musk, T. R. (2009). Restorying one's life (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/2613
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