Full Description
Engages the complexities of teaching Latino/a students at Hispanic-Serving Institutions.
This groundbreaking collection brings together the eclectic voices of two-year and four-year writing teachers at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) throughout the United States to explore the complexities of teaching writing with Latino/a students. Made up of narratives, qualitative studies, and conversations, the book presents the theories and practices of these experienced teachers. Its strength lies in the diversity of perspectives and methods used by these teachers to address many of the issues central to teaching Latino/a and other minority students: acknowledgment of difference, respect for diversity, student identity, students' right to their own language, and the valuing of home and school literacies and languages.
Contents
Foreword: Lessons Learned at Hispanic-Serving Institutions
Michelle Hall Kells
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Cristina Kirklighter, Susan Wolff Murphy, and Diana Cárdenas
Part 1 Introductory Chapters
1. Teaching Writing at Hispanic-Serving Institutions
Beatrice Méndez Newman
2. Teaching English in a California Two-Year Hispanic-Serving Institution: Complexities, Challenges, Programs, and Practices
Jody Millward, Sandra Starkey, and David Starkey
Part 2 We Are Not All the Same: Understanding Geographic and Cultural Differences at Hispanic-Serving Institutions
3. Discovering a "Proper Pedagogy": The Geography of Writing at the University of Texas-Pan American
Dora Ramírez-Dhoore and Rebecca Jones
4. Literate Practices/Language Practices: What Do We Really Know about Our Students?
Isabel Araiza, Humberto Cárdenas Jr., and Susan Loudermilk Garza
5. Más allá del inglés: A Bilingual Approach to College Composition
Isis Artze-Vega, Elizabeth I. Doud, and Belkys Torres
6. Un pie adentro y otro afuera: Composition Instruction for Transnational Dominicans in Higher Education
Sharon Utakis and Marianne Pita
Part 3 Considerations for Creating Effective Writing Programs at Hispanic-Serving Institutions
7. Building on the Richness of a South Texas Community: Revisioning a Technical and Professional Writing Program through Service Learning
Diana Cárdenas and Susan Loudermilk Garza
8. It Is All in the Attitude—The Language Attitude
Isabel Baca
9. Changing Perceptions, and Ultimately Practices, of Basic Writing Instructors through the Familia Approach
Barbara Jaffe
Part 4 The Personal Narrative: Exploring Our Cultures as Hispanic-Serving Institution Students and Teachers
10. The Politics of Space and Narrative in the Multicultural Classroom
Robert J. Affeldt
11. Collaboratively Mentoring Our Identities as Readers, Writers, and Teachers: A Black Cuban, Black American's Impact on a South Texas Community
Cathy Freeze, Dundee Lackey, Cristina Kirklighter, Jennifer Anderson, Peter Cavazos, Rachel Eatmon-Hall, Misty Lynn García, Jennifer Nelson Reynolds, Sandra Valerio, Billy D. Watson, Elizabeth Worden, and Stacy Wyatt
List of Contributors
Index
