| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 216 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword by Concha Delgado Gaitan; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Theoretical Frameworks to Understand the Transfronterizx Experience; 2. Sociocultural Perspectives on Learning in Dual Language Settings; 3. Conducting Research on the U.S.-Mexico Border; 4. Stories of Transfronterizx Experience; 5. Language and Literacies Crossing Borders; 6. Making Connections: Recontextualizing for Academic Writing; 7. Translanguaging: Access to Science Discourse; 8. Multimodality as a Resource for the Social Organization of Learning |
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9. Understanding, Valuing, and Modeling Transfronterizx Funds of KnowledgeConclusion: Transfronterizx Practices as Generative Spaces; Appendix: Methods; References; Index; About the Authors |
| Summary |
Educating Across Borders is an ethnography of the learning experiences of transfronterizxs, border-crossing students who live on the U.S.-Mexico border, their lives spanning 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 experiences. 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 02, 2018) |
| Subject |
Education, Bilingual -- Texas -- El Paso
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Mexican students -- Education (Elementary) -- Texas -- El Paso
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EDUCATION -- General.
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Education, Bilingual
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Texas -- El Paso
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Araujo, Blanca E.
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Esquinca, Alberto.
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Delgado-Gaitan, Concha.
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| ISBN |
9780816538867 |
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0816538867 |
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