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Author Alvarez, Steven, 1979- author

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 superaciĆ³n 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
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017025341
ISBN 9781438467214
1438467214