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The Chicana/o/x Dream - Gilberto Q. Conchas, Nancy Acevedo

The Chicana/o/x Dream

Hope, Resistance and Educational Success
Buch | Softcover
256 Seiten
2020
Harvard Educational Publishing Group (Verlag)
978-1-68253-511-0 (ISBN)
CHF 48,90 inkl. MwSt
Based on interview data, life testimonios, and Chicana feminist theories, The Chicana/o/x Dream profiles first-generation, Mexican-descent college students who have overcome adversity by utilizing various forms of cultural capital to power their academic success.

While college enrollment rates for Chicana/o/x students have steadily increased over the last decade, this cohort still faces significant barriers to academic achievement, including minimal information about college and limited access to the kind of preparation and advising that will help them get there. As a result, Chicana/o/x students maintain stubbornly low four-year completion rates. Against this backdrop, Gilberto Q. Conchas and Nancy Acevedo address the mechanisms that shape the achievement, aspirations, and expectations of Chicana/o/x students who grew up in marginalized communities and unequal school contexts and share success stories about this growing population of students.

Conchas and Acevedo elevate the voices of students at a research university and in the community college sector to reveal important issues and factors impacting and shaping the students' academic journeys. The college-age men and women in the narratives evince hope, resistance, and empowerment in the face of marginalization, anti-immigration sentiment, poverty, and an education system that too often reinforces deficit-minded stereotypes. 

The authors critique the educational policies and practices that systematically fail to champion Chicana/o/x success and examine the use of community cultural wealth that supports US-born and US immigrant students of Mexican descent to make their achievement possible. In so doing, the authors  look toward the future by highlighting the actions that Chicana/o/x students take in creating bridges between K–12 to college and between their communities and higher education.

The Chicana/o/x Dream helps define the heart and soul of tomorrow's America and elucidates how Chicana/o/x college students maintain hope, enact resistance, and succeed against injustice. The book offers a call to action to K–20 educators and administrators to develop better supports to foster the success of Mexican-descent students.

Gilberto Q. Conchas is a professor of educational policy and social context at the University of California, Irvine, and is the interim chair of the department of chicano studies, acting associate dean of social sciences, and visiting professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Nancy Acevedo is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Technology at California State University, San Bernardino, and a recipient of the 2019 American Educational Research Association Latina/o/x Research Issues Emerging Scholar Award.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Race and Education
Nachwort Dolores Delgado Bernal
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 151 x 228 mm
Gewicht 320 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Berufspädagogik
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Erwachsenenbildung
ISBN-10 1-68253-511-8 / 1682535118
ISBN-13 978-1-68253-511-0 / 9781682535110
Zustand Neuware
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