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, and political contexts of society. Latino Education: An Agenda for Community Action Research conceptualizes and illustrates the theoretical framework for the NLERAP agenda and its projects. This framework is grounded in three overlapping areas of scholarship and activism, which are reflected within the chapters in this volume: critical studies, illuminating and analyzing the status of people of color in the United States; Latino/a educational research, capturing the sociohistorical, cultural, and political schooling experiences of U.S. Latino/a communities; and participatory action research, exemplifying a liberation-oriented methodology for truly transformative education. The volume includes both descriptive educational research and critical analyses of previous research and educational agendas related to Latino/a communities in the United States. According to current U.S. Census data, Latinos now comprise the largest minority group in the total U.S. population. Historically, reflecting larger sociohistorical and economic inequalities in U.S. society, the Latino community has not been well served by U.S. public school systems. More attention to the Latino students' educational issues is needed to redress this problem, especially given the tremendous population increase and projected growth of Latino communities in the U.S. Latino Education: An Agenda for Community Action Research is a major contribution toward this goal.
Author(s): Melissa Rivera Pedro Pedraza
Edition: 1
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 584
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 8
Foreword......Page 12
Preface......Page 14
PART I Introduction—Creating the Collective Vision......Page 20
1 Origins of the National Latino/a Education Research and Policy Project (NLERAP)......Page 22
2 A New Vision for Latino/a Education: A Comparative Perspective on Research Agendas......Page 30
PART II Sociohistorical Revisioning......Page 64
3 Setting the Context: Historical Perspectives on Latino/a Education......Page 66
4 The Intellectual Presence of the Deficit View of Spanish-Speaking Children in the Educational Literature During the 20th Century......Page 94
5 Explanatory Models of Latino/a Education During the Reform Movement of the 1980s......Page 118
PART III Exposing the Colonizing Effects of Reform......Page 174
6 Latinos and Education: A Statistical Portrait......Page 176
7 Standards-Based Reform and the Latino/a Community: Opportunities for Advocacy......Page 184
8 Student Learning and Assessment: Setting an Agenda......Page 204
9 California’s Standards Movement: How English Learners Have Been Left Out of the Equation for Success......Page 224
10 Con Pasión y Con Coraje: The Schooling of Latino/a Students and Their Teachers’ Education......Page 250
PART IV Collapsing the Paradox, Imagining New Possibilities......Page 278
11 Fighting the Backlash: Decolonizing Perspectives and Pedagogies in Neocolonical Times......Page 280
12 The Educational Sovereignty of Latino/a Students in the United States......Page 314
13 Social Action and the Politics of Collaboration......Page 340
14 Theoretical Perspectives on the Underachievement of Latino/a Students in U.S. Schools: Toward a Framework for Culturally Additive Schooling......Page 362
PART V Actualizing the Future......Page 392
15 Latino/a Families’Epistemology......Page 394
16 Latino/a Education in the 21st Century......Page 422
17 Democracy, Education, and Human Rights in the United States: Strategies of Latino/a Empowerment......Page 444
PART VI Realizing the Power of Community Action......Page 474
18 Reflections on Collaborative Research and the NLERAP Process......Page 476
Afterword A Project of Hope: Defining a New Agenda for Latino/a Education in the 21st Century......Page 482
Appendix A NLERAP: Education Research Framework and Agenda......Page 490
Appendix B Incorporating Latino/a Communities Into Educational Research: Statement on Methodology......Page 548
About the Contributors......Page 558
Author Index......Page 568
Subject Index......Page 578
