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Protean literacy : extending the discourse on empowerment / Concha Delgado-Gaitan.
Author
Delgado-Gaitan, Concha
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Format
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Language
English
Published/Created
London ; Washington, D.C. : Falmer Press, 1996.
Description
viii, 151 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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LC153.C36 D45 1996
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Subject(s)
Literacy
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California
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Carpinteria
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Case studies
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Hispanic Americans
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Education
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California
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Carpinteria
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Case studies
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Educational anthropology
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California
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Carpinteria
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Case studies
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Education
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Parent participation
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California
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Carpinteria
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Case studies
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Home and school
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California
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Carpinteria
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Case studies
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Critical pedagogy
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California
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Carpinteria
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Case studies
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Summary note
We learn from a Latino immigrant community in Carpinteria, California that literacy is interwoven in all aspects of our lives. From storytelling in Spanish-speaking children's peer groups to communication between Latino families and the school, this community reveals the cultural strengths of the people as they forge new identities in a different language and with varied sociocultural demands. A strong awareness of their own personal and cultural history encourages the families in Carpinteria to create the optimum learning environment for their children in the home, community and school. During Delgado-Gaitan's decade of critical ethnography in Carpinteria she has illuminated the intricate relationships among Latino families as together they build a sociopolitical community to bridge family and school alliances. How they extend their learning from the social networks to the family arena and to the personal, and in reverse, represents their protean responses to the diversity and adversity in their lives. This life-story captures the collective and individual texts of the Latino children, their parents and educators used to empower themselves to transform discontinuity in an age where continuity is increasingly foreign.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Ch. 1. Community Landscape
Ch. 2. Participatory Voices
Ch. 3. Building on Family Strengths
Ch. 4. Shapeshifting: A Self of Many Possibilities
Ch. 5. Protean Pedagogy
Ch. 6. Dimensions of Change.
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ISBN
0750704691 ((cl ; : alk. paper))
9780750704694 ((cl ; : alk. paper))
0750704705 ((pb ; : alk. paper))
9780750704700 ((pb ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
95031400
OCLC
32779404
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