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Winner of the 2021 Southwest Book Award from the Border Regional Library Association
The Shoulders We Stand On traces the complex history of bilingual education in New Mexico, covering Spanish, Diné, and Pueblo languages. The book focuses on the formal establishment of bilingual education infrastructure and looks at the range of contemporary challenges facing the educational environment today. The book's contributors highlight particular actions, initiatives, and people that have made significant impacts on bilingual education in New Mexico, and they place New Mexico's experience in context with other states' responses to bilingual education. The book also includes an excellent timeline of bilingual education in the state. The Shoulders We Stand On is the first book to delve into the history of bilingual education in New Mexico and to present New Mexico's leaders, families, and educators who have pioneered program development, legislation, policy, evaluation, curriculum development, and teacher preparation in the field of bilingual multicultural education at state and national levels. Historians of education, educators, and educators in training will want to consider this as required reading.
Contents
Introduction-Rebecca Blum Martínez and Mary Jean Habermann López
Part One. Indigenous New Mexico: The Critical Role of Language in a Way of Life
Chapter One. The Gift of Language from One Pueblo Perspective-Regis Pecos
Chapter Two. From English-Only Boarding School Policies to Total Navajo Immersion Methodologies: A Sociocultural Historical Perspective of Navajo Bilingual Education-Vincent Werito
Chapter Three: Bilingual Education in Pueblo Country-Christine P. Sims
Part Two. Experimentation, Policies, and Legislation
Chapter Four. Promise and Frustration: The History of Spanish-Language Bilingual Education in New Mexico, 1846-1970-Phillip (Felipe) B. Gonzales
Chapter Five. The Pecos Project-Mary Jean Habermann López
Chapter Six. Initial Policies, Legislation, and Decisions-Rebecca Blum Martínez
Chapter Seven. Serna v. Portales, 1974: Changing the Music and Asserting Language Rights for New Mexico's Children-Mia Angélica Sosa-Provencio and Rebecca Sánchez
Chapter Eight. New Mexico's Role in Federal Policies-Rebecca Blum Martínez and Mary Jean Habermann López
Part Three. Innovations, Preparation, and Leaders
Chapter Nine. Innovations in Bilingual Education in New Mexico-Beverly Argus-Calvo, Rebecca Blum Martínez, and Mary Jean Habermann López
Chapter Ten. Assessing the Spanish Language Proficiency of Bilingual Teachers-Thomasina Pagán Hannum and Loretta C. Salazar
Chapter Eleven. Development of Instructional Materials for Bilingual Education Programs-Julia Rosa López-Emslie
Chapter Twelve. The State Bilingual Advisory Committee -Mary Jean Habermann López
Chapter Thirteen. Spanish-Speaking and Indigenous Leaders in New Mexico Who Made Successful Innovations in Bilingual Education: A Chapter in Two Parts-María Luisa González and Rebecca Blum Martínez
Timeline: Early Experimentation in ESL and Bilingual Education to the Richardson Administration
Contributors
Index
