Education In The New Latino Diaspora

by Stanton Wortham

Overview

The new Latino Diaspora brings challenges to the existing social service infrastructure, including public schools, and the authors provide data that can be used to improve educational policy and practice in affected communities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313076107
Publisher:	ABC-CLIO, Incorporated
Publication date:	11/30/2001
Series:	Sociocultural Studies in Educational Policy Formation and Appropriation Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	620 KB

About the Author

STANTON WORTHAM is a linguistic anthropologist of education and teaches in the Educational Leadersip Division at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education./e

ENRIQUE G. MURILLO, Jr., is a faculty member in the College of Education at California State University San Bernardino./e

EDMUND T. HAMANN is a Research and Evaluation Specialist at the Education Alliance at Brown University./e

Table of Contents

Forward by Bradley A.U. Levinson

Education and Policy in the New Latino Diaspora by Edmund T. Hamann, Stanton Wortham, and Enrique G. Murillo, Jr.

Reinventing Educatión in New Latino Communities: Pedagogies of Change and Continuity in North Carolina by Sofia Villenas

Recent Language Minority Education Policy in Georgia: Appropriation, Assimilation, and Americanization by Scott A. L. Beck and Martha Allexsaht-Snider

¿Un Paso Adelante? The Politics of Bilingual Education, Latino Student Accomodation, and School District Management in Southern Appalachia by Edmund T. Hamann

The New Paths of Mexican Immigrants in the United States: Challenges for Education and the Role of Mexican Universities by Víctor Zúñiga, et al.

Gender and School Success in the Latino Diaspora by Stanton Wortham

Fragmented Community, Fragmented Schools: The Implementation of Educational Policy for Latino Immigrants by Elias Martinez

Lowrider Art and Latino Students in the Rural Midwest by Karen Grady

Policy Design as Practice: Changing the Prospects of Hispanic Voices by Michael Brunn

How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: "Disciplining" the Transnational Subject in the American South by Enrique G. Murillo, Jr.

The New Latino Diaspora and Educational Policy by Margaret A. Gibson

Index