Children from the Other America
A Crisis of Possibility
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Beschreibung
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.
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
Autor*in
Michele López-Stafford Levy
Themen in »Children from the Other America«
xenophobia refugees undocumented immigrants unaccompanied children diverse classrooms Central America immigrant/refugee activism consent decree