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Author Valdés, Guadalupe.

Title Con respeto : bridging the distances between culturally diverse families and schools : an ethnographic portrait / Guadalupe Valdés
Published New York : Teachers College Press, [1996]
©1996

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Description xvi, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary Con Respeto will be a valuable resource in graduate courses in foundations, ethnographic research, sociology and anthropology of education, multicultural education, and child development; and will be of particular interest to professors and researchers of multicultural education, bilingual education, ethnographic research methods, and sociology and anthropology of education
Con Respeto: Bridging the Distances Between Culturally Diverse Families and Schools - An Ethnographic Portrait presents a study of ten Mexican immigrant families, with a special focus on mothers, that describes how such families go about the business of surviving and learning to succeed in a new world. Guadalupe Valdes examines what appears to be a lack of interest in education by Mexican parents and shows, through extensive quotations and numerous anecdotes, that these families are both rich and strong in family values, and that they bring with them clear views of what constitutes success and failure. The book's conclusion questions the merit of typical family intervention programs designed to promote school success and suggests that these interventions - because they do not genuinely respect the values of diverse families - may have long-term negative consequences for children
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-227) and index
Subject Educational anthropology -- Texas -- Case studies.
Home and school -- Texas -- Case studies.
Mexican American children -- Education -- Social aspects -- Texas -- Case studies.
Mexican American families -- Texas -- Social conditions -- Case studies.
LC no. 95050331
ISBN 0807735264 (paperback: acid-free paper)
0807735272 (cloth : acid-free paper)