Latino Education: An Agenda For Community Action Research (National Latino a Education Research and Policy Project)

588 Pages·2005·3.62 MB·English

by  Melissa Rivera Pedro Pedraza

Latino Education
An Agenda for Community
Action Research
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Latino Education
An Agenda for Community
Action Research
A Volume of the National Latino/a Education
Research and Policy Project
Editedby
Pedro Pedraza
Melissa Rivera
CenterforPuertoRicanStudies,HunterCollege,
CityUniversityofNewYork
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“AVolumeoftheNationalLatino/aEducationResearchandPolicyProject.”
Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex.
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1.HispanicAmericans—Education. 2.Actionresearchin
education—UnitedStates. 3.Educationalequalization—UnitedStates.
4.Educationalchange—UnitedStates. I.Pedraza,Pedro,1946–
II.Rivera,Melissa,1971–III.NationalLatino/aEducationResearchandPolicy
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Contents
Foreword xi
Preface xiii
PARTI Introduction—
CreatingtheCollectiveVision
Chapter 1 OriginsoftheNationalLatino/aEducation
ResearchandPolicyProject(NLERAP) 3
PedroPedrazaandMelissaRivera
Chapter 2 ANewVisionforLatino/aEducation:
AComparativePerspectiveonResearch
Agendas 11
CarmenI.MercadoandLorriJohnsonSantamar´ıa
PARTII SociohistoricalRevisioning
Chapter 3 SettingtheContext:HistoricalPerspectives
onLatino/aEducation 47
Victoria-Mar´ıaMacDonaldandKarenMonkman
Chapter 4 TheIntellectualPresenceoftheDeficit
ViewofSpanish-SpeakingChildren
intheEducationalLiteratureDuring
the20thCentury 75
BarbaraM.Flores
vii
viii CONTENTS
Chapter 5 ExplanatoryModelsofLatinoEducation
DuringtheReformMovementofthe1980s 99
MarthaMontero-Sieburth
PARTIII ExposingtheColonizingEffectsofReform
Chapter 6 LatinosandEducation:AStatisticalPortrait 157
He´ctorR.Cordero-Guzma´n
Chapter 7 Standards-BasedReformandtheLatino/a
Community:OpportunitiesforAdvocacy 165
Rau´lGonza´lez
Chapter 8 StudentLearningandAssessment:Setting
anAgenda 185
RobertRueda
Chapter 9 California’sStandardsMovement:How
EnglishLearnersHaveBeenLeftOut
oftheEquationforSuccess 205
TeresaI.Ma´rquez-Lo´pez
Chapter 10 ConPasio´nyConCoraje:TheSchooling
ofLatino/aStudentsandTheir
Teachers’Education 231
JaimeG.A.Grinberg,KatiaPazGoldfarb,
andElizabethSaavedra
PARTIV CollapsingtheParadox,
ImaginingNewPossibilities
Chapter 11 FightingtheBacklash:Decolonizing
PerspectivesandPedagogiesin
NeocolonialTimes 261
CarlosTejedaandKrisD.Gutierrez
Chapter 12 TheEducationalSovereigntyofLatino/a
StudentsintheUnitedStates 295
LuisC.MollandRichardRuiz
Chapter 13 SocialActionandthePolitics
ofCollaboration 321
OlgaA.Va´squez
CONTENTS ix
Chapter 14 TheoreticalPerspectivesonthe
UnderachievementofLatino/aStudents
inU.S.Schools:TowardaFramework
forCulturallyAdditiveSchooling 343
AnthonyDeJesu´s
PARTV ActualizingtheFuture
Chapter 15 Latino/aFamilies’Epistemology 375
NitzaM.Hidalgo
Chapter 16 Latino/aEducationinthe21stCentury 403
RaymondV.Padilla
Chapter 17 Democracy,Education,andHumanRights
intheUnitedStates:StrategiesofLatino/a
Empowerment 425
RaymondRocco
PARTVI RealizingthePowerofCommunityAction
Chapter 18 ReflectionsonCollaborativeResearch
andtheNLERAPProcess 457
PedroPedraza
Afterword AProjectofHope:DefiningaNewAgenda
forLatino/aEducationinthe21stCentury 463
SoniaNieto
Appendix ANLERAP:EducationResearchFramework
andAgenda 471
Appendix B IncorporatingLatinoCommunities
intoEducationalResearch:Statement
onMethodology 529
AbouttheContributors 539
AuthorIndex 549
SubjectIndex 559