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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783698403321

Titolo

Latino education : an agenda for community action research / / edited by Pedro Pedraza, Melissa Rivera

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mahwah, N.J. : , : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, , 2005

ISBN

1-135-61209-9

1-135-61210-2

1-282-37521-0

9786612375217

1-4106-1331-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (588 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PedrazaPedro <1946->

RiveraMelissa <1971->

Disciplina

371.829/68073

Soggetti

Hispanic Americans - Education

Action research in education - United States

Educational equalization - United States

Educational change - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Volume of the National Latino/a Education Research and Policy Project."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Preface; PART I: Introduction-Creating the Collective Vision; PART II: Sociohistorical Revisioning; PART III: Exposing the Colonizing Effects of Reform; PART IV: Collapsing the Paradox, Imagining New Possibilities; PART V: Actualizing the Future; PART VI: Realizing the Power of Community Action; Afterword: A Project of Hope: Defining a New Agenda for Latino/a Education in the 21st Century; Appendix A: NLERAP: Education Research Framework and Agenda; Appendix B: Incorporating Latino Communities into Educational Research: Statement on Methodology; About the Contributors

Author IndexSubject Index

Sommario/riassunto

This landmark volume represents the work of the National Latino/a Education Research Agenda Project (NLERAP)-an initiative focused on school reform and educational research with and for Latino



communities. NLERAP's goal is to bring together various constituencies within the broad Latino community who are concerned with public education to articulate a Latino perspective on research-based school reform, and to use research as a guide to improving the public school systems that serve Latino students and to maximizing their opportunities to participate fully and equally in all social, economic, a