Resiliency and Success: Migrant Children in the United States FROM THE PUBLISHER
This book elucidates the amazing life journeys of academically successful migrant students. Most literature on Hispanic studentsespecially the children of migrant farm workers who have been referred to as the "invisible children," or the children of "ghost workers" has focused on the sociocultural factors that have contributed to their low level of achievement, high attrition rates, and other academic failures. Such studies lead to a deficit model, portraying Hispanic children as deficient in a variety of ways, and through its negative focus perpetuates these failures.Offering vivid case studies of successful students, this book offers a corrective, helping teachers, education students, and researchers understand the factors that lead to success in minority language children. The authors develop the lessons of student success stories into recommendations for schools and for educational policy. Readers gain from this book the stories of real students, the challenges they faced, and the means by which students and schools may overcome language and cultural barriers to educational success.
Author Bio:Encarnaci�n Garza teaches at the Univ. of Texas at San Antonio. Enrique T. Trueba, Univ. of Texas at Austin is the coauthor of Ethnography and Schools: Qualitative Approaches to the Study of Education (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002). Pedro Reyes, Associate Vice Chancellor, University of Texas at Austin, is the editor of the book Lessons from HighPerforming Hispanic Schools: Creating Learning Communities (Teachers College Press).
SYNOPSIS
Garza (University of Texas-San Antonio) presents the stories of successful high school and college students who come from migrant farm laboring families, in an effort to help teachers, education students, researchers, and policy makers understand factors that lead to success for minority language students. The original study was conducted from an ethnographic perspective, using qualitative approaches that require fine-tuned analysis of ethno-historical and interview data. Students speak in their own words in numerous excerpts from interviews, and the authors use lessons learned from their stories to make recommendations for schools and educational policy. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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