U.S. Latinos and Education Policy (eBook, PDF)

Research-Based Directions for Change
Redaktion: Portes, Pedro R.; Mellom, Paula J.; Baquedano-López, Patricia; Salas, Spencer

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Produktbeschreibung

Going beyond just exposing educational inequalities, this volume provides intelligent and pragmatic research-based policy directions and tools for change for U.S. Latino Education and other multicultural contexts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317751700
• Artikelnr.: 40824968

Autorenporträt

Pedro R. Portes is The Goizueta Foundation Distinguished Chair in Latino Teacher Education and Executive Director of the Center for Latino Achievement and Success in Education (CLASE), University of Georgia, USA. Spencer Salas is Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA. Patricia Baquedano-López is Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA. Paula J. Mellom is Assistant Research Scientist, University of Georgia, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
Foreword
Sonia Nieto
Editors' Introduction
Section I: Policy Concerns about Praxis and Cultural Capital Preservation
Chapter 1
National Myopia, Latino Futures, and Educational PolicyPedro R. Portes &
Spencer Salas
Chapter 2
Thinking through the Decolonial Turn in Research and Praxis: Advancing New
Understandings of the Community-School Relation in Latina/o Parent
InvolvementPatricia Baquedano-López, Sera J. Hernandez & Rebecca A.
Alexander
Chapter 3
Cultivating a Cadre of Critically Conscious Teachers and "Taking this
Country to a Totally New Place"Angela Valenzuela & Patricia D. López
Section II: Children of Immigrants in Schools: Global and U.S. Policy
Research
Chapter 4
Immigration and the American School System: The Second Generation at the
CrossroadsAlejandro Portes
Chapter 5
Divergent Paths to School Adaptation among Children of Immigrants: New
Approaches and Insights to Existing DataCecilia Rios-Aguilar, Manuel S.
Gonzalez Canché, & Pedro R. Portes
Chapter 6
Recommendations from a Comparative Analysis of Educational Policies and
Research for the Achievement of Latinos in the U. S. and Latin Americans in
Spain towards Smarter Solutions Martha Montero-Sieburth & Lidia Cabrera
Perez
Chapter 7
Development and its social, economic, and educational consequences: The
case of the Zimapán Hydroelectric Project Sergio Quesada Aldana
Chapter 8
Transnational Mobility, Education and Subjectivity: Two Case Examples from
Puerto RicoSandra Soto-Santiago & Luis C. Moll
Section III: A Closer Look at Families, Classroom Learning, and Identity
Development
Chapter 9
Finding a Place: Migration and Education in Mixed-Status FamiliesAriana
Mangual Figueroa
Chapter 10
Talking the Walk: Classroom Discourse Strategies that Foster Dynamic
Interactions with Latina/o Elementary School English LearnersRuth Harman
Chapter 11
Changing the Pedagogical Culture of Schools with Latino English Learners:
Re-culturing Instructional LeadershipNoni Mendoza Reis & Barbara Flores
Chapter 12
Beyond Educational Standards? Latino Student Learning Agency and Identity
in ContextRichard P. Durán
Afterword
Eugene E. García
Contributors