Ni el problema, ni el remedio (neither the problem, nor the solution) : Latina immigrant mothers negotiating deficit perspectives in U.S. early childhood education
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation analyzes how a group of Latina immigrant women negotiated U.S. educational ideas and cultural messages in a program called Vamos al kinder (Let's go to kindergarten). Vamos al kinder is a preschool and parent education program for three to five-year-old Spanish-speaking children and their parents in a mid-size town in Oregon. Documenting how staff and mother-participants discussed, developed, and practiced U.S. cultural messages and parent involvement strategies in the workshops brings to light the immense amount of work, care, and love they enacted for their children and community. The dissertation has three principal conclusions. First, Latino families in my study were neither the source of nor solution to their children's potential academic challenges. Second, parent education is a complex, sometimes duplicitous space for low-income parents of color, especially Latina immigrants. Finally, Vamos al kinder and community-based programs like it can provide an alternative parent educational space, through staff's creativity, cariño (affection/care) and connections to grassroots community organizing opportunities, which allow for parent leadership. Despite deficit-oriented tools they inherited from early childhood education, the staff's tenacity in emphasizing parent and family strengths demonstrated the importance of creating safe spaces for Latina immigrant women to foster interactions, discussion, and experimentation among themselves.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2014 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Rodela, Katherine C |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, Graduate School of Education. |
| Primary advisor | McDermott, Ray (Raymond Patrick), 1946- |
| Primary advisor | Valdés, Guadalupe |
| Thesis advisor | McDermott, Ray (Raymond Patrick), 1946- |
| Thesis advisor | Valdés, Guadalupe |
| Thesis advisor | Gordon, Leah |
| Thesis advisor | Jiménez, Tomás R. (Tomás Roberto), 1975- |
| Advisor | Gordon, Leah |
| Advisor | Jiménez, Tomás R. (Tomás Roberto), 1975- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Katherine C. Rodela. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Graduate School of Education. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2014. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2014 by Katherine Celeste Rodela
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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