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Latino education : an agenda for community action research / edited by Pedro Pedraza, Melissa Rivera.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hispanic Americans--Education.
- Hispanic Americans.
- Action research in education--United States.
- Action research in education.
- Educational equalization--United States.
- Educational equalization.
- Educational change--United States.
- Educational change.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (588 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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, a
- Contents:
- Contents; Foreword; Preface; PART I: Introduction-Creating the Collective Vision; PART II: Sociohistorical Revisioning; PART III: Exposing the Colonizing Effects of Reform; PART IV: Collapsing the Paradox, Imagining New Possibilities; PART V: Actualizing the Future; PART VI: Realizing the Power of Community Action; Afterword: A Project of Hope: Defining a New Agenda for Latino/a Education in the 21st Century; Appendix A: NLERAP: Education Research Framework and Agenda; Appendix B: Incorporating Latino Communities into Educational Research: Statement on Methodology; About the Contributors
- Author IndexSubject Index
- Notes:
- "A Volume of the National Latino/a Education Research and Policy Project."
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-61209-9
- 1-135-61210-2
- 1-282-37521-0
- 9786612375217
- 1-4106-1331-3
- 9781410613318
- OCLC:
- 475973313
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