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This landmark volume represents the work of the National Latino/a Education Research Agenda Project (NLERAP)-an initiative focused on school reform and educational research with and for Latino communities. NLERAP's goal is to bring together various constituencies within the broad Latino community who are concerned with public education to articulate a Latino perspective on research-based school reform, and to use research as a guide to improving the public school systems that serve Latino students and to maximizing their opportunities to participate fully and equally in all social, economic, and political contexts of society. Latino Education: An Agenda for Community Action Research conceptualizes and illustrates the theoretical framework for the NLERAP agenda and its projects. This framework is grounded in three overlapping areas of scholarship and activism, which are reflected within the chapters in this volume: critical studies, illuminating and analyzing the status of people of color in the United States; Latino/a educational research, capturing the sociohistorical, cultural, and political schooling experiences of U.S. Latino/a communities; and participatory action research, exemplifying a liberation-oriented methodology for truly transformative education. The volume includes both descriptive educational research and critical analyses of previous research and educational agendas related to Latino/a communities in the United States. According to current U.S. Census data, Latinos now comprise the largest minority group in the total U.S. population. Historically, reflecting larger sociohistorical and economic inequalities in U.S. society, the Latino community has not been well served by U.S. public school systems. More attention to the Latino students' educational issues is needed to redress this problem, especially given the tremendous population increase and projected growth of Latino communities in the U.S. Latino Education: An Agenda for Community Action Research is a major contribution toward this goal.
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Latino Education An Agenda for Community Action Research
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Latino Education An Agenda for Community Action Research A Volume of the National Latino/a Education Research and Policy Project Edited by
Pedro Pedraza Melissa Rivera Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College, City University of New York
2005
LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOCIATES, PUBLISHERS Mahwah, New Jersey London
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2008. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” C 2005 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. Copyright All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by photostat, microform, retrieval system, or any other means, without prior written permission of the publisher.
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers 10 Industrial Avenue Mahwah, New Jersey 07430 www.erlbaum.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Latino education : an agenda for community action research / edited by Pedro Pedraza, Melissa Rivera. p. cm. “A Volume of the National Latino/a Education Research and Policy Project.” Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8058-4986-6 (casebound)—ISBN 0-8058-4987-4 (pbk.) 1. Hispanic Americans—Education. 2. Action research in education—United States. 3. Educational equalization—United States. 4. Educational change—United States. I. Pedraza, Pedro, 1946– II. Rivera, Melissa, 1971– III. National Latino/a Education Research and Policy Project. IV. Title. LC2669.L36 2005 371.829’68073—dc22
ISBN 1-4106-1331-3 Master e-book ISBN
2005012014
This volume is dedicated to Dr. Enrique (Henry) Torres True