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  • Radical Love

    A Revolution for the 21 st Century

    by Lídia Puigvert ...
    Series Book 8 - Teaching Contemporary Scholars
    Radical Love is a study about the phenomenon of love. Radical love allows for both passionate and egalitarian relationships and, in Gómez’s words, «a revolution for the twenty-first century.» ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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  • Skin Color and Identity Formation

    Perception of Opportunity and Academic Orientation Among Mexican and Puerto Rican Youth

    by Edward Fergus ...
    Series series Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues
    The focus of this study is on the ways in which skin color moderates the perceptions of opportunity and academic orientation of 17 Mexican and Puerto Rican high school students. More specifically, the study's analysis centered on cataloguing the racial/ethnic identification shifts (or not) in relation to how they perceive others situate them based on skin color. ... Read more

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  • Translanguaging with Multilingual Students

    Learning from Classroom Moments

    Edited by Ofelia García, Tatyana Kleyn ...
    Looking closely at what happens when translanguaging is actively taken up to teach emergent bilingual students across different contexts, this book focuses on how it is already happening in classrooms as well as how it can be implemented as a pedagogical orientation. It extends theoretical understandings of the concept and highlights its promises and challenges. Using a Transformative Action ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Homegirls

    Language and Cultural Practice Among Latina Youth Gangs

    by Norma Mendoza-Denton ...
    Series series New Directions in Ethnography
    In this ground-breaking new book on the Norteña and Sureña (North/South) youth gang dynamic, cultural anthropologist and linguist Norma Mendoza-Denton looks at the daily lives of young Latinas and their innovative use of speech, bodily practices, and symbolic exchanges that signal their gang affiliations and ideologies. Her engrossing ethnographic and sociolinguistic study reveals the connection ... Read more

    $46.00 USD

  • Gay Latino Studies

    A Critical Reader

    by Tomás Almaguer, Luz Martínez, Daniel Contreras, Catriona Rueda Esquibel, Lionel Cantú, María Lugones, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes ...
    The authors of the essays in this unique collection explore the lives and cultural contributions of gay Latino men in the United States, while also analyzing the political and theoretical stakes of gay Latino studies. In new essays and influential previously published pieces, Latino scholars based in American studies, ethnic studies, history, performance studies, and sociology consider gay Latino ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Funds of Knowledge

    Theorizing Practices in Households, Communities, and Classrooms

    Edited by Norma Gonzalez, Luis C. Moll, Cathy Amanti ...
    The concept of "funds of knowledge" is based on a simple premise: people are competent and have knowledge, and their life experiences have given them that knowledge. The claim in this book is that first-hand research experiences with families allow one to document this competence and knowledge, and that such engagement provides many possibilities for positive pedagogical actions.Drawing from both ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Ethnolinguistic Diversity and Education

    Language, Literacy and Culture

    Edited by Marcia Farr, Lisya Seloni, Juyoung Song ...
    In recent decades, the linguistic and cultural diversity of school populations in the United States and other industrialized countries has rapidly increased along with globalization processes. At the same time, schooling as it is currently constituted continues to be ineffective for large numbers of students. Exploring crucial issues that emerge at the intersection of linguistic diversity and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Ambiguities and Tensions in English Language Teaching

    Portraits of EFL Teachers as Legitimate Speakers

    by Peter Sayer ...
    Series series ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series
    The central theme of this book is the ambiguities and tensions teachers face as they attempt to position themselves in ways that legitimize them as language teachers, and as English speakers. Focusing on three EFL teachers and their schools in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, it documents how ordinary practices of language educators are shaped by their social context, and examines the roles, ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Handbook of Hispanic Sociolinguistics

    Edited by Manuel Díaz-Campos ...
    Series series Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
    This Handbook provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of theoretical and descriptive research in contemporary Hispanic sociolinguistics.Offers the first authoritative collection exploring research strands in the emerging and fast-moving field of Spanish sociolinguisticsHighlights the contributions that Spanish Sociolinguistics has offered to general linguistic theoryBrings together a ... Read more

    $48.00 USD

  • Paulo Freire

    A Philosophical Biography

    by Walter Omar Kohan ...
    Paulo Freire (1921-1997) is one of the most widely read and studied educational thinkers of our time. His seminal works, including Pedagogy of the Oppressed,sparked the global social and philosophical movement of critical pedagogy and his ideas about the close ties between education and social justice and politics are as relevant today as they ever were. In this book, Walter Omar Kohan interweaves ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • Translanguaging and Transformative Teaching for Emergent Bilingual Students

    Lessons from the CUNY-NYSIEB Project

    Edited by City University of New York-New York State Initiative on Emergent Bilinguals ...
    A critical and accessible text, this book provides a foundation for translanguaging theory and practice with educating emergent bilingual students. The product of the internationally renowned and trailblazing City University of New York-New York State Initiative on Emergent Bilinguals (CUNY-NYSIEB), this book draws on a common vision of translanguaging to present different perspectives of its ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Engaging Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of Possibility

    From Blind to Transformative Optimism

    by César Augusto Rossatto ...
    Engaging Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of Possibility is a cross-cultural case study of how people experience schooling in relation to their sense of time and optimism. César Augusto Rossatto examines how real-life situations and social structures influence people's construction of notions of possibilities. Positionality, or perceptions about life and projections of the future, has great impact on ... Read more

    $42.89 USD