Grounded in both theory and practice, with implications for both, this book is about children’s perspectives on the borders that society erects, and their actual, symbolic, ideational and metaphorical movement across those borders. Based on extensive ethnographic data on children of immigrants (mostly from Mexico, Central America and the Philippines) as they interact with undergraduate students from diverse linguistic, cultural and racial/ethnic backgrounds in the context of an urban play-based after-school program, it probes how children navigate a multilingual space that involves playing with language and literacy in a variety of forms.
Immigrant Children in Transcultural Spaces speaks to critical social issues and debates about education, immigration, multilingualism and multiculturalism in an historical moment in which borders are being built up, torn down, debated and recreated, in both real and symbolic terms; raises questions about the values that drive educational practice and decision-making; and suggests alternatives to the status quo. At its heart, it is a book about how love can serve as a driving force to connect people with each other across all kinds of borders, and to motivate children to engage powerfully with learning and life.
By:
Marjorie Faulstich Orellana
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 11mm
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9781138804944
ISBN 10: 1138804940
Series: Expanding Literacies in Education
Pages: 148
Publication Date: 02 November 2015
Audience:
College/higher education
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Primary
,
A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Preface Chapter One: Introduction and Overview Chapter Two: Blurring Borders at B-Club: Research, Theory, Practice Chapter Three: Seeing with our Hearts Chapter Four: A Pedagogy of Heart and Mind Chapter Five: Shining Lights in a Globalized World Chapter Six: Faces of Globalization: The Community Context Chapter Seven: Learning and Love Chapter Eight: Transculturation Chapter Nine: Translanguaging Chapter Ten: Transliteracies Chapter Eleven: Policy, Practice, and Possibilities: Imagining Teaching and Learning for a New World Appendix A: B-Club Kids Survey Responses 2012-13
Marjorie Faulstich Orellana is Professor of Education, Urban Schooling Division, University of California Los Angeles, USA.
