Educating Across Borders : The Case of a Dual Language Program on the U.S.-Mexico Border /

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Educating Across Borders is an ethnography of the learning experiences of transfronterizxs, border-crossing students who live on the U.S.-Mexico border, their lives spanning two countries and two languages. Authors María Teresa de la Piedra, Blanca Araujo, and Alberto Esquinca examine language prac...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: De la Piedra, Maria Teresa Berta (Author), Esquinca, Alberto (Author), Araujo, Blanca E. (Author)
Other Authors: Delgado Gaitan, Concha (writer of foreword.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Mexican American children > Texas > El Paso > Language
Mexican American children > Education > Texas > El Paso.
Education, Bilingual > Texas > El Paso.
Mexican-American Border Region > Social conditions.
Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) > Social conditions.
El Paso (Tex.) > Social conditions.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Theoretical frameworks to understand the transfronterizx experience
  • Sociocultural perspectives on learning in dual language settings
  • Conducting research on the U.S.-Mexico border
  • Stories of transfronterizx experience
  • Language and literacies crossing borders
  • Making connections : recontextualizing for academic writing
  • Translanguaging : access to science discourse
  • Multimodality as a resource for the social organization of learning
  • Understanding, valuing, and modeling transfronterizx funds of knowledge
  • Conclusion : transfronterizx practices as generative spaces.

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