The strange career of bilingual education in Texas, 1836-1981 / Carlos Kevin Blanton. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blanton, Carlos Kevin, 1970-

Series:

Fronteras series ; no. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Bilingual--Texas--History.

Education, Bilingual.

Mexican American children--Education--Texas--History.

Mexican American children.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 p. ) ill. ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In The Strange Career of Bilingual Education in Texas, 1836-1981, Carlos Kevin Blanton traces the educational policies and their underlying rationales, from Stephen F. Austin's proposal in the 1830s to "Mexicanize" Anglo children by teaching them Spanish along with English and French, through the 1981 passage of the most encompassing bilingual education law in the state's history. Drawing on primary materials, Blanton presents the Texas experience in light of national trends and movements, such as Progressive Education, the Americanization Movement, and the Good Neighbor Movement.

By tracing the many changes that eventually led to the re-establishment of bilingual education in its modern form in the 1960s and the 1981 passage of a landmark state law, Blanton reconnects Texas with its bilingual past."--Jacket.

Contents:

Legal and policy aspects of the bilingual tradition, 1821-84

Tejanos, Germans, and Czechs in the making of the bilingual tradition, 1850-1900

The gradual demise of the bilingual tradition, 1884-1905

The rise of Americanization curriculum, 1918-41

The theory and practice of English-only pedagogy, 1893-1941

The promise and limits of the politics of accommodation and wartime opportunity, 1930-47

Mexican American activism and language theory in the gradual demise of English-only, 1947-65

The birth of the modern bilingual education movement, 1965-68

The return of bilingual education to Texas, 1964-81.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-194) and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph