Fracturing Opportunity
Mexican Migrant Students and College-going Literacy
- 236 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Fracturing Opportunity demonstrates a simple yet profound idea ā that educational opportunity is learned. And if it is learned, then it can be taught and taught more equitably. This book brings sociocultural theories of learning and development to bear on the persistent problems of inequality in college access, and presents an innovative framework for understanding and addressing the historic inequities that plague educational opportunity. Through ethnographic documentation of Mexican migrants' educational experiences, the book moves beyond traditional inquiry on aspiration, academic preparation, and college matriculation to explore the deeper, more fundamental sense-making processes that mediate how students among the most vulnerable cultural communities in the United States engage in college-going. This is an excellent text for educators and researchers interested in equal educational opportunity generally, Mexican migrant and Chicano education in particular, and scholars interested in applied critical sociocultural theory and critical ethnographic methods.
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Table of contents
- Table of Contents
- List of Tables and Figures ix
- Foreword, Patricia M. McDonough xi
- Acknowledgements xiii
- 1. Introduction 1
- 2. Mapping Migrant Studentsā College-going Literacy Development 23
- 3. Reading and Writing Migrant Students as Subjects 61
- 4. Mapping Tools and Rules: Mediating and Regulating College-going 89
- 5. (im)Migration as Tools for College-going 105
- 6. Ā”Confianza! 119
- 7. Mapping the Communityās Division of Labor: Who Does What in Migrant Studentsā College-going? 143
- 8. Toward a College-going Pedagogy: Implications of Mapping a Fracture 183
- Afterword: On Method and Coming to Know 207
- Bibliography 227