Gándara / Jensen The Students We Share

Preparing US and Mexican Educators for Our Transnational Future
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4384-8324-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 309 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Examines policies, norms, and classroom practices of the US and Mexican education systems, with the aim of preparing educators to understand and help transnational children and youth.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gándara, Patricia

Jensen, Bryant

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Methoden des Lehrens und Lernens

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Foreword
Linda Darling-Hammond

Introduction: The Students We Share and the Teachers We Need
Bryant Jensen and Patricia Gándara

Part I: Teacher Preparation Across Borders

1. Contrasting Realities: How Differences Between the Mexican and U.S. Education Systems Affect Transnational Students
Lucrecia Santibañez

2. Binational Teacher Preparation: Constructing Pedagogical Bridges for the Students We Share
Cristina Alfaro and Patricia Gándara

3. Normalista Perspectives on Preparing Mexican Teachers for American Mexican Students
Eric Ruiz Bybee, Bryant Jensen, and Kevin Johnstun

Part II: Transnational Teaching

4. What Educators in Mexico and in the U.S. Need to Know and Acknowledge to Attend to the Educational Needs of Transnational Students
Edmund T. Hamann and Víctor Zúñiga

5. Preparing Educators for Asset-Based Pedagogies: The Case of Recently Arrived Transnational Students in Central Mexico
Sarah Gallo

6. Equitable Teaching Enhances Achievement Opportunity for the Students We Share
Bryant Jensen

7. Mirroring Students' and Teachers' Classroom Experiences to Address the Challenges of Transnationalism in Mexican Schools
Betsabé Román González and Juan Sánchez García

Part III: Bridging Policies

8. Language and Cultural Skills of U.S. Teachers: Informing Policy to Meet the Needs of Transnational Bilingual Students
Francesca López and Lucrecia Santibañez

9. From Plyler to Sanctuary: U.S. Policy on Public School Access and Implications for Educators of Transnational Students
Julie Sugarman

10. Binational Policies for the Students We Share and the Teachers We Need
Patricia Gándara and Bryant Jensen

Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Patricia Gándara is Research Professor and Co-Director of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA. She is the coeditor (with Frances Contreras) of The Latino Education Crisis: The Consequences of Failed Social Policies and the author of Over the Ivy Walls: The Educational Mobility of Low-Income Chicanos, also published by SUNY Press. Bryant Jensen is Associate Professor in the Department of Teacher Education at BYU. He is the coeditor (with Adam Sawyer) of Regarding Educación: Mexican-American Schooling, Immigration, and Bi-National Improvement.