Educating Across Borders

The Case of a Dual Language Program on the U.S.-Mexico Border
2. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-8165-3847-8
Verlag: University of Arizona Press

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

Educating Across Borders is an ethnography of the learning experience of transfronterizxs, border-crossing students living on the U.S.-Mexico border whose lives span two countries and two languages. Authors María Teresa de la Piedra, Blanca Araujo, and Alberto Esquinca examine language practices and funds of knowledge these students use as learning resources to navigate through their binational, dual language school experience.

The authors, who themselves live and work on the border, question artificially created cultural and linguistic borders. To explore this issue, they employed participant-observation, focus groups, and individual interviews with teachers, administrators, and staff members to construct rich understandings of the experiences of transfronterizx students. These ethnographic accounts of their daily lives counter entrenched deficit perspectives about transnational learners.

Drawing on border theory, immigration and border studies, funds of knowledge, and multimodal literacies, Educating Across Borders is a critical contribution toward the formation of a theory of physical and metaphorical border crossings that ethnic minoritized students in U.S. schools must make as they traverse the educational system.

Autoren/Hrsg.

de la Piedra, María Teresa

Araujo, Blanca

Esquinca, Alberto

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Literatur, Deutsch, Fremdsprachen (Unterricht & Didaktik)

Über Autor(innen)

María Teresa de la Piedra is an associate professor of bilingual education at the University of Texas at El Paso. Her research centers on language and literacy practices in bilingual communities on the U.S.-Mexico border and in Latin America.

Blanca Araujo is an associate professor and director of the Office of Teacher Candidate Preparation at New Mexico State University. Her most recent book is Multicultural Education: A Renewed Paradigm of Transformation and Call to Action.

Alberto Esquinca1 is an associate professor of bilingual education at the University of Texas at El Paso. His research centers on the bilingual and biliterate practices and identities of Latinxs, particularly in STEM contexts.