"Cuando Realmente Te Importan Tus Alumnos...": A Story of Latina Im/migrant Mothers' Trust in Schools, Told in Testimonios and Antroretratos = "Cuando Realmente Te Importan Tus Alumnos...": Una Historia de la Confianza De Las Madres Latinas Inmigrantes En Las Escuelas, Contada En Testimonios y Antroretratos Cybil Yakira

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Yakira, Cybil, author.

Contributor:

University of Pennsylvania. Educational Leadership., degree granting institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multicultural education.

Education.

Educational leadership.

0455.

0515.

0449.

Local Subjects:

Multicultural education.

Education.

Educational leadership.

0455.

0515.

0449.

Physical Description:

1 electronic resource (443 pages)

Contained In:

Dissertations Abstracts International 86-09A

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, 2024

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This testimonio practitioner research builds on the relationships of trust between a dual language kindergarten teacher, and nine Latina im/migrant mothers of her former students in order to learn about the mothers' experiences developing trust in their children's schools. Using ethnographic observation, individual and group interviews, photovoice and descriptive inquiry processes to elicit the mothers' testimonios, the practitioner-researcher positions these as counterstories to the deficit perspectives of Latina im/migrant mothers so pervasive in the ideologies and policies of US education (Solorzano and Yosso, 2002). Guided by a conceptual framework built on critical race theory (Ladson-Billings and Tate, 1995) and Chicana feminism (Anzaldua, 1987), this study contributes to the broadening and refining of relational trust theory (Bryk and Schneider, 2002), by describing how relational trust is experienced by Latina immigrant mothers in under resourced urban schools. However, this study also utilizes an original technique called antroilustracion to make sense of and represent the mothers' stories, as well as the research process overall, in ways that are less traditional, but more attuned, ethical, and accurate. Findings identify and illustrate nine conditions that the mothers describe as necessary in return for their trust, all of which directly defy the the deficit perspectives, compliance cultures, and neoliberal policies that produce the ineffective and transactional forms of family engagement so rampant in US schools serving Latine immigrants. Educators are encouraged to conceive of their practice as a type of collaborative m(other)work, and to lean into mutual and reciprocal relationships of trust with Latine immigrant students and families through genuine collaboration, respect, and care

Esta investigacion de testimonios se basa en las relaciones de confianza entre una maestra de Kinder bilingue y nueve madres latinas inmigrantes de sus antigues alumnes con el fin de aprender sobre las experiencias de las madres en el desarrollo de la confianza en las escuelas de sus hijes. Utilizando la observacion etnografica, entrevistas individuales y grupales, fotovoz y procesos de investigacion descriptiva para obtener los testimonios de las madres, la investigadora-maestra los posiciona como contrahistorias a las perspectivas deficitarias de las madres latinas inmigrantes tan omnipresentes en las ideologias y politicas de la educacion estadounidense (Solorzano y Yosso, 2002). Guiado por un marco conceptual construido sobre la teoria critica de la raza (Ladson-Billings y Tate, 1995) y el feminismo chicano (Anzaldua, 1987), este estudio contribuye a la ampliacion y el refinamiento de la teoria de la confianza relacional (Bryk y Schneider, 2002), al describir como las madres inmigrantes latinas experimentan la confianza relacional en escuelas urbanas de bajos recursos. Sin embargo, este estudio tambien utiliza una tecnica original llamada antroilustracion para dar sentido y representar las historias de las madres, asi como el proceso de investigacion en general, de maneras que son menos tradicionales, pero mas a tono, eticas y precisas. Los hallazgos identifican e ilustran nueve condiciones que las madres describen como necesarias a cambio de su confianza, todas las cuales desafian directamente las perspectivas deficitarias, las culturas de cumplimiento y las politicas neoliberales que producen las formas ineficaces y transaccionales de compromiso familiar tan desenfrenadas en las escuelas estadounidenses que atienden a inmigrantes latines. Se anima a les educadores a concebir su practica como un tipo de trabajo maternal colaborativo y a apoyarse en relaciones mutuas y reciprocas de confianza con sus estudiantes y las familias inmigrantes latinas a traves de una colaboracion, respeto y cuidado genuino

Notes:

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-09, Section: A.

Advisors: Flores, Nelson Committee members: Cioe-Pena, Maria; Campano, H. Gerald

Ed.D. University of Pennsylvania 2024

Local Notes:

School code: 0175

ISBN:

9798308165279

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