Latino Education: An Agenda for Community Action Research: A Volume of the National Latino/a Education Research and Policy Project

by Pedraza, Pedro; Rivera, Melissa

• ISBN13: 9780805849868
• ISBN10: 0805849866
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-07-08
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

This landmark volume represents the work of the National Latino/a Education Research Agenda Project (NLERAP)-an initiative focused on school reform and educational research with and for Latino communities. NLERAP's goal is to bring together various constituencies within the broad Latino community who are concerned with public education to articulate a Latino perspective on research-based school reform, and to use research as a guide to improving the public school systems that serve Latino students and to maximizing their opportunities to participate fully and equally in all social, economic, and political contexts of society. Latino Education: An Agenda for Community Action Researchconceptualizes and illustrates the theoretical framework for the NLERAP agenda and its projects. This framework is grounded in three overlapping areas of scholarship and activism, which are reflected within the chapters in this volume: critical studies, illuminating and analyzing the status of people of color in the United States; Latino/a educational research, capturing the sociohistorical, cultural, and political schooling experiences of U.S. Latino/a communities; and participatory action research, exemplifying a liberation-oriented methodology for truly transformative education. The volume includes both descriptive educational research and critical analyses of previous research and educational agendas related to Latino/a communities in the United States. According to current U.S. Census data, Latinos now comprise the largest minority group in the total U.S. population. Historically, reflecting larger sociohistorical and economic inequalities in U.S. society, the Latino community has not been well served by U.S. public school systems. More attention to the Latino students' educational issues is needed to redress this problem, especially given the tremendous population increase and projected growth of Latino communities in the U.S. Latino Education: An Agenda for Community Action Researchis a major contribution toward this goal.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Preface	xi
PART I Introduction---Creating the Collective Vision
Origins of the National Latino/a Education Research and Policy Project (NLERAP)	3	(8)
Pedro Pedraza
Melissa Rivera
A New Vision for Latino/a Education: A Comparative Perspective on Research Agendas	11	(36)
Carmen I. Mercado
Lorri Johnson Santamaria
PART II Sociohistorical Revisioning
Setting the Context: Historical Perspectives on Latino/a Education	47	(28)
Victoria-Maria MacDonald
Karen Monkman
The Intellectual Presence of the Deficit View of Spanish-Speaking Children in the Educational Literature During the 20th Century	75	(24)
Barbara M. Flores
Explanatory Models of Latino Education During the Reform Movement of the 1980s	99	(58)
Martha Montero-Sieburth
PART III Exposing the Colonizing Effects of Reform
Latinos and Education: A Statistical Portrait	157	(8)
Hector R. Cordero-Guzman
Standards-Based Reform and the Latino/a Community: Opportunities for Advocacy	165	(20)
Raul Gonzalez
Student Learning and Assessment: Setting an Agenda	185	(20)
Robert Rueda
California's Standards Movement: How English Learners Have Been Left Out of the Equation for Success	205	(26)
Teresa I. Marquez-Lopez
Con Pasion y Con Coraje: The Schooling of Latino/a Students and Their Teachers' Education	231	(30)
Jaime G. A. Grinberg
Katia Paz Goldfarb
Elizabeth Saavedra
PART IV Collapsing the Paradox, Imagining New Possibilities
Fighting the Backlash: Decolonizing Perspectives and Pedagogies in Neocolonial Times	261	(34)
Carlos Tejeda
Kris D Gutierrez
The Educational Sovereignty of Latino/a Students in the United States	295	(26)
Luis C. Moll
Richard Ruiz
Social Action and the Politics of Collaboration	321	(22)
Olga A. Vasquez
Theoretical Perspectives on the Underachievement of Latino/a Students in U.S. Schools: Toward a Framework for Culturally Additive Schooling	343	(32)
Anthony De Jesus
PART V Actualizing the Future
Latino/a Families' Epistemology	375	(28)
Nitza M. Hidalgo
Latino/a Education in the 21st Century	403	(22)
Raymond V. Padilla
Democracy, Education, and Human Rights in the United States: Strategies of Latino/a Empowerment	425	(32)
Raymond Rocco
PART VI Realizing the Power of Community Action
Reflections on Collaborative Research and the NLERAP Process	457	(6)
Pedro Pedraza
Afterword A Project of Hope: Defining a New Agenda for Latino/a Education in the 21st Century	463	(8)
Sonia Nieto
Appendix A NLERAP: Education Research Framework and Agenda	471	(58)
Appendix B Incorporating Latino Communities into Educational Research: Statement on Methodology	529	(10)
About the Contributors	539	(10)
Author Index	549	(10)
Subject Index	559