Immigrant Voices In Search of Educational Equity

by Trueba, Enrique (Henry) T.; Bartolomé, Lilia I.; Ayala, Encarnacion Soriano; Bautista, Angelica; Cheng, Li-Rong Lilly; Christensen, Kathee; Delgado-Gaitan, Concha; Ek, Lucila; Ernst-Slavit, Gisela; Faltis, Christian; Gersten, Bridget Fitzgerald; Hernandez

• ISBN13: 9780742500402
• ISBN10: 0742500403
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-08-28
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

The ethnics are coming-and the fear of many observers is that the quality of traditional disciplines will suffer as a result. Immigrant Voices is a book which shows that such fear is unfounded. Ethnic scholars of international repute come together in this collection of essays to meditate upon the single most important social phenomena in America today: immigration.

Author Biography

Encarnacion Soriano Ayala holds a Ph.D. in educational sciences and is professor of research methodology in education at the University of Almeria, Spain Lilia I. Bartolome is an associate professor of education in the Teacher Education and the Leadership in Urban Schools Doctoral Programs at the University of Massachusetts at Boston Angelica Bautista obtained her M.A. from the anthropology department at the University of Texas at Austin, where she is currently finishing her Ph.D. Li-Rong Lilly Cheng is a professor of communicative disorders and assistant dean of Global Program Development of the Office of the President at San Diego State University Kathee M. Christensen is a professor in the Department of Communicative Disorders at San Diego State University Concha Delgado-Gaitan is an award-winning ethnographic researcher and scholar on oral and written traditions in immigrant communities Lucila Ek is a doctoral student in the Urban Schooling division in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles Gisela Ernst-Slavit earned her Ph.D. at the University of Florida in 1991 and currently is an associate professor at Washington State University at Vancouver Christian Faltis is professor of bilingual and second language education at Arizona State University in Tempe Bridget Fitzgerald Gersten is the English language officer for North Africa Arcelia Hernandez is a bilingual teacher in the Port Hueneme School District in Oxnard, California Peter Nien-chu Kiang is an associate professor of education and director of the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Massachusetts at Boston Donaldo Macedo is professor of English and distinguished professor of liberal arts and education at the University of Massachusetts, Boston Elizabeth Sugar Martinez, who received her B.A. and M.Ed. from the University of California at Los Angeles, is currently a University of Houston Ph.D. candidate in curriculum and instruction Peter McLaren is a professor in the Division of Urban Schooling in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California at Los Angeles Martha Montero-Sieburth is an associate professor at the Graduate College of Education at the University of Massachusetts at Boston Marjorie Faulstich Orellana is an assistant professor in the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University Carola Suarez-Orozco is the codirector of the Harvard Immigration Project Marcelo Suarez-Orozco is professor of human development and psychology, co-director of the Harvard Immigration Project, and chair of the Interfaculty Committee on Latino Studies at Harvard University Enrique (Henry) T. Trueba has a Ph.D. in anthropology from Pittsburgh University Yali Zou is the founder and director of the Asian American Studies Center at the University of Houston and an associate professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Cultural Studies

Table of Contents

Series Foreword Beyond Psychologizing Multiculturalism	ix
Donaldo Macedo
Introduction Democracy Sabotaged by Democracy: Immigration under Neoliberalism	1	(16)
Peter McLaren
Some Conceptual Considerations in the Interdisciplinary Study of Immigrant Children	17	(20)
Marcelo Suarez-Orozco
Carola Suarez-Orozco
Critical Ethnography for the Study of Immigrants	37	(38)
Enrique (Henry) T. Trueba
Peter McLaren
Bilingual Education in an Immigrant Community: Proposition 227 in California	75	(18)
Marjorie Faulstich Orellana
Lucila Ek
Arcelia Hernandez
Ideological Baggage in the Classroom: Resistance and Resilience among Latino Bilingual Students and Teachers	93	(14)
Elizabeth Sugar Martinez
Multicultural Education in Primary Schools in Almeria, Spain	107	(14)
Encarnacion Soriano Ayala
Linking Sociocultural Contexts to Classroom Practices: Language Identity in a Bilingual Hungrian-Slovak School in Slovakia	121	(16)
Bridget Fitzgerald Gersten
Christian Faltis
Wanting to Go On: Healing and Transformation at an Urban Public University	137	(30)
Peter Nien-chu Kiang
Disabling Institutions, Irreconcilable Laws	167	(20)
Concha Delgado-Gaitan
The Voice of a Chinese Immigrant in America: Reflections on Research and Self-Identity	187	(16)
Yali Zou
Intra-Ethnic Mexican and Mexican American Conflicts: Narratives of Oppression and Struggle for Daily Subsistence	203	(16)
Angelica Bautista
The Use of Cultural Resilience in Overcoming Contradictory Encounters in Academia: A Personal Narrative	219	(28)
Martha Montero-Sieburth
Confronting the Walls: Border Crossing, Gender Differences, and Language Learning in Academe	247	(14)
Gisela Ernst-Slavit
Myth or Reality: Publish or Perish	261	(16)
Li-Rong Lilly Cheng
Kathee M. Christensen
Beyond the Politics of Schools and the Rhetoric of Fashionable Pedagogies: The Significance of Teacher Ideology	277	(16)
Lilia I. Bartolome
Enrique (Henry) T. Trueba
Index	293	(10)
About the Contributors	303