Pedagogy and the struggle for voice : issues of language, power, and schooling for Puerto Ricans
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Pedagogy and the struggle for voice : issues of language, power, and schooling for Puerto Ricans
（Critical studies in education series）
Bergin & Garvey, 1991
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-156) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: hb ISBN 9780897892346
Description
How often are the perspectives of Puerto Rican students recognized, listened to, and taken into account? Not very often, according to this incisive study which deals with the struggles that these students confront in U.S. schools. As active participants in the shifting balances of power, in the dialectic of language, and in the battle over whose knowledge, experience, and voice are recognized and accepted, Puerto Rican students are uniquely aware of the language and power relation. Their efforts at trying to make sense out of and fashion a voice from the multiple and often contradictory realities that comprise their daily existence, however, are misinterpreted or ignored. This book challenges generally accepted perspectives and practices among teachers and calls for new pedagogies that respond to the complex needs of these students.
Special focus is placed on the effect that colonial status has had historically on the political, socioeconomic, and psychological reality of the Puerto Rican people. Through the voices of Puerto Rican children and those of Puerto Rican and other Latino adolescents, the book explores how the past and present intersect in people's lives, inform pedagogy, and shape the conditions and struggles through which students come to know.
Table of Contents
Preface Series Introduction: Rethinking the Pedagogy of Voice, Difference, and Cultural Struggle by Henry A. Giroux The Tensions of Voices Past and Present: Colonization, Schooling and Linguistic Imposition The Rudiments of Voice: Towards an Understanding of Dialogic Opposition The Power and Meaning of Words Bilingualism, Pedagogy, and Voice Bibliography
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: pbk ISBN 9780897892353
Description
How often are the perspectives of Puerto Rican students recognized, listened to, and taken into account? Not very often, according to this incisive study which deals with the struggles that these students confront in U.S. schools. As active participants in the shifting balances of power, in the dialectic of language, and in the battle over whose knowledge, experience, and voice are recognized and accepted, Puerto Rican students are uniquely aware of the language and power relation. Their efforts at trying to make sense out of and fashion a voice from the multiple and often contradictory realities that comprise their daily existence, however, are misinterpreted or ignored. This book challenges generally accepted perspectives and practices among teachers and calls for new pedagogies that respond to the complex needs of these students.
Special focus is placed on the effect that colonial status has had historically on the political, socioeconomic, and psychological reality of the Puerto Rican people. Through the voices of Puerto Rican children and those of Puerto Rican and other Latino adolescents, the book explores how the past and present intersect in people's lives, inform pedagogy, and shape the conditions and struggles through which students come to know.
Table of Contents
Preface
Series Introduction: Rethinking the Pedagogy of Voice, Difference, and Cultural Struggle by Henry A. Giroux
The Tensions of Voices Past and Present: Colonization, Schooling and Linguistic Imposition
The Rudiments of Voice: Towards an Understanding of Dialogic Opposition
The Power and Meaning of Words
Bilingualism, Pedagogy, and Voice
Bibliography
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