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Children from the Other America

A Crisis of Possibility

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Editors:
  1. Michele López-Stafford Levy

    1. New Mexico State University, USA

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  • The target audience is educators in ESL programs in schools, universities and their schools of pedagogy in preparing teachers for 21st century demographics-diverse classrooms
  • Literacy Coaches, ESE specialists, public school officials, and graduate students in ESOL or Community studies; parents and future teachers will be interested to imagine the possibilities of equitable access as we celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Florida Consent Decree further ensuring the language rights and equitable educational access of newcomers and non-native speakers of English
  • As more and more migrant workers make their way north to the US, it is critical to create a pedagogy of possibility which addresses their needs and those of their communities

Part of the book series: Transgressions (TRANS, volume 114)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Michele López-Stafford Levy
    Pages 1-11

  3. The Trouble with English

    • Gloria López-Stafford
    Pages 13-22

  4. A Central American Drama in Four Acts

    • Avi Chomsky
    Pages 23-29

  5. Reflections on the Image of Immigrant Minors from Central America

    • Benton Fazzolari
    Pages 33-48

  6. Mobilizing a Community

    • Jonathan Ryan
    Pages 49-53

  7. An Interview with Peter Roos

    • Peter Roos, Michele López-Stafford Levy
    Pages 55-63

  8. Making the Classroom a Space of Freedom for Immigrant Youth

    • Carolyn O’Gorman-Fazzolari
    Pages 65-81

  9. Rose in the Concrete

    • Jeff Duncan-Andrade
    Pages 83-95

  10. Marcelino’s Eulogy

    • Michele López-Stafford Levy
    Pages 97-105

  11. A Crisis of Possibility

    • Michele López-Stafford Levy
    Pages 107-115
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About this book

Necessity is the mother of invention and this all began with a plea on a listserv: “We have a sixteen year old Mayan Quiche young man who won’t stop crying in our school”. How desperate must a parent be to say goodbye to their child/children to perhaps never see them again because of wars in Syria or gang violence in Central America making citizens so desperate? Will the children make it alive to the next border with so many more to cross? Will they really eventually meet up with family? Or is this pure folly? Will these children be able to go to school for an equitable education and have a much better life than their parents could ever imagine? More important are the implications for U.S. schools: how are they managing the sudden influx of children refugees who are road weary and expected to participate in school structures seamlessly? Many are not aware that, linguistically, these children may not be Spanish-speaking, but only communicate in their own indigenous language.

Editors and Affiliations

  • New Mexico State University, USA

    Michele López-Stafford Levy

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Children from the Other America

  • Book Subtitle: A Crisis of Possibility

  • Editors: Michele López-Stafford Levy

  • Series Title: Transgressions

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-447-3

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-447-3Published: 15 July 2016

  • Series ISSN: 2214-9732

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-9740

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 116

  • Topics: Education, general

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