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ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
PART I Introduction—Creating the Collective Vision
chapter 1|8 pages
Origins of the National Latino/a Education Research and Policy Project (NLERAP)
chapter 2|34 pages
A New Vision for Latino/a Education: A Comparative Perspective on Research Agendas
part |2 pages
PART II Sociohistorical Revisioning
chapter 3|28 pages
Setting the Context: Historical Perspectives on Latino/a Education
chapter 4|24 pages
The Intellectual Presence of the Deficit View of Spanish-Speaking Children in the Educational Literature During the 20th Century
chapter 5|56 pages
Explanatory Models of Latino Education During the Reform Movement of the 1980s
part |2 pages
PART III Exposing the Colonizing Effects of Reform
chapter 7|20 pages
Standards-Based Reform and the Latino/a Community: Opportunities for Advocacy
chapter 8|20 pages
Student Learning and Assessment: Setting an Agenda
chapter 9|26 pages
California’s Standards Movement: How English Learners Have Been Left Out of the Equation for Success
chapter 10|28 pages
Con Pasio´n y Con Coraje: The Schooling of Latino/a Students and Their
part |2 pages
PART IV Collapsing the Paradox, Imagining New Possibilities
chapter 11|34 pages
Fighting the Backlash: Decolonizing Perspectives and Pedagogies in Neocolonial Times
chapter 12|26 pages
The Educational Sovereignty of Latino/a Students in the United States
chapter 13|22 pages
Social Action and the Politics of Collaboration
chapter 14|30 pages
Theoretical Perspectives on the Underachievement of Latino/a Students in U.S. Schools: Toward a Framework for Culturally Additive Schooling
part |2 pages
PART V Actualizing the Future
chapter 17|30 pages
Democracy, Education, and Human Rights in the United States: Strategies of Latino/a Empowerment
part |2 pages
PART VI Realizing the Power of Community Action