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Chávez-Moreno, Laura C. – Journal of Teacher Education, 2021
U.S. teacher education has largely overlooked a sociopolitical-historical context that affects both immigrants and nonimmigrants: American empire. To address the pressing need for teacher education to acknowledge U.S. imperialism, the author stages an argument in three parts. First, she argues that the field should account for empire and its…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Teacher Education Programs, Foreign Policy, Whites
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Rubio, Brenda; Palmer, Deborah K.; Martínez, Manuel – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2021
Currently, there is limited research examining the barriers that immigrant professionals experience when becoming a bilingual teacher in the United States. This study examines the trajectory of a Mexican national, trained as a teacher in his home country, who became a bilingual dual-language educator in a Central Texas school district. Drawing on…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Language Maintenance, Masters Programs, Personal Narratives
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Sepulveda, Enrique, III – Harvard Educational Review, 2011
In this article, Enrique Sepulveda draws on an array of theological, anthropological, and cultural studies, and critical literacy frameworks, as well as on the voices of transmigrant youth through their poetic and autobiographical writing, to present an innovative pedagogy of "acompanamiento". Sepulveda shares narratives from his…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Poetry, Mexican Americans, High School Students
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Garza, Rebecca E.; Garza, Encarnacion, Jr. – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2010
This research project is a qualitative study of 4 White female elementary school teachers working in an urban school district populated by primarily Mexican American students. The data were collected through in-depth interviews, observations, and documents. This study examines the perceptions, beliefs, and life experiences of White female teachers…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Urban Schools, Mexican Americans, Academic Achievement
Strand, David A. – 1988
Fifty-nine Mexican-American families, each with a child between age 5 and 9, participated in a study to determine whether paternal proximal behaviors related to child ability and achievement. Proximal behaviors studied were: (1) teaching strategies; (2) language in literacy related activities; (3) involvement level in childcare; and (4) select…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acculturation, Child Rearing, Fathers
Tyler, I. Keith – Educ Broadcasting Rev, 1969
Descriptors: Acculturation, Blacks, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Television
Holland, Nora – 1969
The selected bibliography on American Indian and Mexican American children in urban schools contains abstracts of 36 documents. Two themes in the writings about these minority groups are noted. One trend stresses concern about assimilation and the acculturation process, while another theme stresses the need for bilingual schooling. (NH)
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indians, Annotated Bibliographies, Bilingual Education
Southwest Council of Foreign Language Teachers. – 1965
A SERIES OF REPORTS SUBMITTED FOR THE 1965 CONFERENCE DEFINE THE VARIOUS SOCIOCULTURAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, LINGUISTIC, AND PEDAGOGICAL BARRIERS TO ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AMONG SPANISH-SPEAKING CHILDREN IN THE SOUTHWEST AND RECOMMEND IMPROVEMENTS TO BREAK DOWN THESE BARRIERS. INDIVIDUAL REPORTS DEAL WITH THE PROBLEMS OF PRESERVING ETHNIC IDENTITY,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acculturation, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism