Remaining and Becoming
Subtitle: Cultural Crosscurrents in An Hispano School (Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum; L. Erlbaum Associates
Published: December 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780805825220
Subjects: Cultural studies; Educational systems; Ethnic studies; Philosophy of education; Teaching of ethnic minorities; Students & Student Life; Hispanic-Americans; Education / Teaching; Education; New Mexico; Education / Philosophy & Social Aspects; Ethnic identity; Multicultural Education
Description: [This book] deals with the politics of identity and the concept of boundaries during a time of rapid change. It investigates how the role of schooling for Hispanos in the Norteno School District in Northern New Mexico - a public school district not fully consolidated until 1972 - has changed significantly over the past three generations. Today, the Hispanos are debating how the functions of the school should respond to the changes resulting from the arrival of public education in their region.

But the contemporary story of education in Norteno has much deeper roots in the political, religious, and cultural history of Northern New Mexico - a region where, over a period of several centuries, Spain, Mexico, and the United States have each claimed sovereignty, with differing goals for and attitudes about the welfare of the people."

"This study is an analysis of the ambiguity of education, the losses and gains that are its consequences, the lingering doubts about the past, and the questions about who future education can and should serve. It is about asking: Is what the students are learning worth as much as what they are forgetting? How does schooling affect the evolving process of asserting, renegotiating, and defending an Hispano identity? By exploring historical factors and ideologies of a particluar school within a particular community, Roberts seeks to understand community expectations for the school as a fitting place for its children.

The goal is not to generalize from the particular to the universal, but to join others in suggesting that we move away from discussing students in a generic sense and focus instead on looking at them in relation to the community in which they live." "The story this book tells will be of interest to educators, researchers, and students across a range of fields including sociology of education, educational anthropology, multicultural education, ethnic studies, Chicano studies, and qualitative research in education."--Jacket.