Subtractive Schooling by Angela Valenzuela

Subtractive Schooling by Angela Valenzuela

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, through assimilationist policies and practices that minimize their culture and language. A key consequence is the erosion of students' social capital evident in the absence of academically oriented networks among acculturated, U.S.-born youth.

Angela Valenzuela is Professor in Curriculum and Instruction and Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas, Austin.

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ISBN 13	9780791443224
ISBN 10	0791443221
Title	Subtractive Schooling
Author	Angela Valenzuela
Series	Suny Series The Social Context Of Education
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	State University of New York Press
Year published	1999-10-21
Number of pages	346
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