| #28475 in Books | State University of New York Press | 1999-10 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x6.00 x.75l,1.05 | File type: PDF | 288 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| This book is worth your time! Important for people in education and for those who want change the schooling system|By Kristen Rosenblum|I read this book for my Masters in Teaching program and really enjoyed it! It was one of the few books I looked forward to reading every week. I majored in Anthropology in college, so this book felt very familiar in the way it treated the probl||Valenzuela s thoughtful and thorough analysis of Latino/a students experiences in a large urban school powerfully defines the educational challenges facing Latino immigrant and U.S.-born youth and outlines important elements for transforming their academic exp
Subtractive Schooling provides a framework for understanding the patterns of immigrant achievement and U.S.-born underachievement frequently noted in the literature and observed by the author in her ethnographic account of regular-track youth attending a comprehensive, virtually all-Mexican, inner-city high school in Houston. Valenzuela argues that schools subtract resources from youth in two major ways: firstly by dismissing their definition of education and secondly, t...
You easily download any file type for your device.Subtractive Schooling: U.S.-Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring | Angela Valenzuela. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
