Title Brokering tareas : Mexican immigrant families translanguaging homework literacies / Steven Alvarez

Published Albany : State University of New York Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (xxix, 182 pages) Contents Mexican New York City : making community at MANOS -- Translanguaging events : homework literacies at MANOS -- Translanguaging in practice : homework, linguistic power, and family life -- Brokering the immigrant bargain : negotiating language, power, and identity in Mexican immigrant families -- Brokering community : community superación and local literacy investment -- Tareas, community, and brokering care : mentoring local languages and literacies Summary Brokering Tareas examines a grassroots literacy mentoring program that connected immigrant parents with English language mentors who helped emerging bilingual children with homework and encouraged positive academic attitudes. Steven Alvarez gives an ethnographic account of literacies practices, language brokering, advocacy, community-building, and mentorship among Mexican-origin families at a neighborhood afterschool program in New York City. Alvarez argues that engaging literacy mentorship across languages can increase parental involvement and community engagement among immigrant families, and he offers teachers and researchers possibilities for rethinking their own practices with the communities of their bilingual students. -- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 02, 2017) Subject Mexican Americans -- Education -- New York (State) -- New York Mexican American families -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions Literacy -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York Mentoring in education -- New York (State) -- New York After-school programs -- New York (State) -- New York Community and school -- New York (State) -- New York Home and school -- New York (State) -- New York EDUCATION -- Essays. EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions. EDUCATION -- Reference. After-school programs Community and school Home and school Literacy -- Social aspects Mentoring in education Mexican Americans -- Education New York (State) -- New York Genre/Form Electronic books Form Electronic book LC no. 2017025341 ISBN 9781438467214 1438467214

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