Fracturing Opportunity Mexican Migrant Students and College-Going Literacy

Name: Fracturing Opportunity Mexican Migrant Students and College-Going Literacy
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ISBN: 9781433105548

ISBN-10: 1433105543

ISBN-13: 9781433105548

Edition: 2010

Authors: Ryan Everly Gildersleeve

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Fracturing Opportunity demonstrates a simple yet profound idea—that educational opportunity is learned. And if it is learned, then it can be taught and taught more equitably. This book brings sociocultural theories of learning and development to bear on the persistent problems of inequality in college access, and presents an innovative framework for understanding and addressing the historic inequities that plague educational opportunity. Through ethnographic documentation of Mexican migrants’ educational experiences, the book moves beyond traditional inquiry on aspiration, academic preparation, and college matriculation to explore the deeper, more fundamental sense-making processes that…

Book details

List price: $48.90
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Peter Lang AG International Academic Publishers
Publication date: 4/30/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 236
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.06" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English



List of Tables and Figures


Foreword



Acknowledgements



Introduction



Mapping Migrant Studentsï¿½ College-going Literacy Development



Reading and Writing Migrant Students as Subjects



Mapping Tools and Rules: Mediating and Regulating College-going



(im)Migration as Tools for College-going



ï¿½Confianza!



Mapping the Communityï¿½s Division of Labor: Who Does What in Migrant Studentsï¿½ College-going?



Toward a College-going Pedagogy: Implications of Mapping a Fracture


Afterword: On Method and Coming to Know


Bibliography