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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824993203321

Titolo

Raza studies : the public option for educational revolution / / edited by Julio Cammarota and Augustine Romero ; foreword by David Stovall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tucson, Arizona : , : University of Arizona Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8165-9883-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CammarotaJulio

RomeroAugustine

StovallDavid

Disciplina

371.829/680791776

Soggetti

Mexican American children - Education - Arizona - Tucson

Mexican Americans - Study and teaching - Arizona - Tucson

Critical pedagogy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introducing Paulo Freire in Raza studies / Julio Cammarota and Augustine F. Romero -- Critically compassionate intellectualism / Augustine F. Romero -- Lies, damn lies, and statistics / Nolan L. Cabrera -- The battle for educational sovereignty / Augustine F. Romero -- Self-inflicted reductio ad absurdum / Mary Carol Combs -- When you know yourself you're more confident / Andrea J. Romero and Anna Ochoa O'Leary -- The social justice education project / Julio Cammarota -- Encuentro with families and students / Julio Cammarota and Augustine F. Romero -- Researching the institute for transformative education / Lara dos Passos Coggin -- Deconstructing the doublethink / Jeff Duncan-Andrade -- Expanding on Freire / Chiara Cannella.

Sommario/riassunto

"The well-known and controversial Mexican American studies (MAS) program in Arizona's Tucson Unified School District set out to create an equitable and excellent educational experience for Latino students. This book offers the first comprehensive account of this progressive program by those who created it, implemented it, and have struggled to protect it"--