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With the American dream progressively elusive for and exclusive of Latinos, there is an urgent need for empirically and conceptually based macro-level policy solutions for Latino education. 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.
U.S. Latinos and Education Policy is organized round three themes: education as both product and process of social and historical events and practices; the experiences of young immigrants in schools in both U.S. and international settings and policy approaches to address their needs; and situated perspectives on learning among immigrant students across school, home, and community.
With contributions from leading scholars, including Luis Moll, Eugene E. Garcia, Richard P. Durán, Sonia Nieto , Angela Valenzuela, Alejandro Portes and Barbara Flores, this volume enhances existing discussions by showcasing how researchers working both within and in collaboration with Latino communities have employed multiple analytic frameworks; illustrating how current scholarship and culturally oriented theory can serve equity-oriented practice; and, focusing attention on ethnicity in context and in relation to the interaction of developmental and cultural factors. The theoretical and methodological perspectives integrate praxis research from multiple disciplines and apply this research directly to policy.
Contents
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
