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Immigration and the challenge of education : a social drama analysis in south central Los Angeles
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- Summary
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Analyzes a community from the standpoint of immigrant mothers in South Central Los Angeles who were concerned about the education of their children and the violence in their communities. Written in...
Analyzes a community from the standpoint of immigrant mothers in South Central Los Angeles who were concerned about the education of their children and the violence in their communities. Written in Spanish and English, the text brings together the women's observations as they put into action their developing political consciousness.
Details
- Creator
- Nathalia E. Jaramillo
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed. 2012
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (195 p.)
- ISBNs
- 1283440644, 9786613440648, 1137013346, 0230338275, 0230338267
- OCLC
- ocn775872795
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Introduction: the social drama of Mirasur -- Setting the stage: the school-community borderland -- The pedagogy of the burro -- The breach -- Inner theater: social drama as shifting consciousness -- Anti-structure and communitas -- Revolutionary social drama: de-colonial pedagogical processes
Subjects
- Children of immigrants -- Education -- California -- Los Angeles -- Case studies.
- Latin Americans -- Education -- California -- Los Angeles -- Case studies.
- Children of immigrants -- California -- Los Angeles -- Social conditions -- Case studies.
- Latin Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Social conditions -- Case studies.
- Community and school -- California -- Los Angeles -- Case studies.