Contested Policy by Guadalupe San Miguel
Bilingual education is one of the most contentious and misunderstood educational programs in the country. It raises significant questions about this country's national identity, the nature of federalism, power, ethnicity, and pedagogy. In Contested Policy, Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr., studies the origins, evolution, and consequences of federal bilingual education policy from 1960 to 2001, with particular attention to the activist years after 1978, when bilingual policy was heatedly contested. Traditionally, those in favor of bilingual education are language specialists, Mexican American activists, newly enfranchised civil rights advocates, language minorities, intellectuals, teachers, and students. They are ideologically opposed to the assimilationist philosophy in the schools, to the structural exclusion and institutional discrimination of minority groups, and to limited school reform. On the other hand, the opponents of bilingual education, comprised at different points in time of conservative journalists, politicians, federal bureaucrats, Anglo parent groups, school officials, administrators, and special-interest groups (such as U.S. English), favor assimilationism, the structural
Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr., is a professor of history at the University of Houston. He is the author of ""Let All of Them Take Heed"": Mexican-Americans and the Campaign for Educational Equality in Texas, 1910-1981; Brown, Not White: School Integration and the Chicano Movement in Houston; and Tejano Proud: Tex-Mex Music in the Twentieth Century.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781574411713 |
| ISBN 10 | 1574411713 |
| Titel | Contested Policy |
| Autor | Guadalupe San Miguel |
| Serie | Al Filo Mexican American Studies |
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| Bindungsart | Hardback |
| Verlag | University of North Texas Press,U.S. |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2004-03-31 |
| Seitenanzahl | 176 |
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