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Product Description: In a comprehensive and up-to-date account of a minority Chinese group (the Miao) and its education and development, the author shows how, given the right conditions, a minority nationality such as the Miao can be empowered and play a major part in its nation's economic development...read more

Product Description: In uniting theory on and practice in the use of Spanish for persons whose home language is Spanish, the editors demonstrate the role played by home languages in cognitive and social development. This book should suprise traditional instructors, and may inspire new teachers, and perhaps bring students to recognize that they can use their linguistic and cultural resources to expand their knowledge of Spanish...read more

Product Description: This is an historical and anthropological account of a group of Mexican immigrants who managed to understand and use the US democratic system, not least by reforming schools, in order to gain access to the "American Dream". It sets out to assist its readers in understanding the significance of the politics of education for ethnic minorities...read more

Product Description: "Myth or Reality" presents in simple language the case of Asian Americans in California. Case studies and episodes are presented in a theoretical context of language minority students' adjustment to mainstream cultures. The high levels of expectation and the achievement motivation of many Asian Americans has added to the myth of success of all Asian populations in the United States...read more

Product Description: The Hmong people, with a total population of about 5 million, have a long history of statelessness and migration. About 90,000 Hmong have entered America as war refugees in the last 15 years. This study looks at the history and plight of the Hmong and the way in which such a minority fits into the American dream...read more

Product Description: This book outlines the proceedings of a one-day conference on anthropological perspectives on dropouts. This is a phenomenon which plagues US schools and the papers in this book discuss a problem that is symptomatic of the deep malaise of our time about the articulation of school and society...read more

Product Description: RAISING SILENT VOICES examines the ways in which teachers can identify the actual capabilities of these students and work with them toward more effective classroom communication. It brings together the knowledge and experience of teachers and researchers who have helped create suitable learning environments for children of many different language groups...read more

Product Description: A central theme in anthropoligical research is the socialization process. Yet, when applied to student life, the literature tends to neglect a frequent phenomena of student life: that students are uprooted from their home countries and resettled in culturally different areas...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)