Confronting Intolerance

Critical, Responsive Literacy Instruction with Adult Immigrants

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Confronting Intolerance: Critical, Responsive Literacy Instruction with Adult Immigrants captures the experience of adult immigrants who are improving their English literacy while confronting an intolerant political culture. It examines recent immigration policy and the anti-immigrant fervor that has gripped the United States and describes the perseverance and struggles of immigrant students to pursue their goals through literacy education.
The book offers a powerful and vivid example of critical pedagogy blended with sociocultural perspectives of literacy education in an effort to raise student consciousness and alter the political culture. Confronting Intolerances is an ethnographic, teacher research narrative that describes a year in the life of the author’s classroom with adult Latino immigrants, mostly Mexican, in a Chicago, Illinois (USA) settlement house.
Specific focus is given to immigrant students’ response to reading material that was selected to meet individual ambitions but was also selected to meet the concerns and anxieties that surfaced in response to the intolerant climate. The book describes students’ engagement with narrative and informational reading and displays the students’ evolving perspectives on politics, economics, culture, and race as these relate to Latino immigrants in the United States.
Through extensive classroom dialogue and descriptions of students engaged in political activities, the book explores the students’ emerging sense of what it means to become “American” amidst an immigrant backlash. It takes the reader through a year in a settlement house classroom, and reveals the hopes, dreams, and struggles of immigrants who continue to pursue America’s promises—those realized and those broken.

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Preliminary Material
页码: i–ix
“In English My Name Means Hope”
页码: 27–39
Justine: Searching for the Good Fight
页码: 53–62
Personal and Political Narratives
页码: 63–79
Agency and Discourse
页码: 81–91
La Marcha
页码: 103–118
Olivia: With Dreams of Elvis
页码: 133–144
The Skin is Talking
页码: 145–162
Jacinta: Feeling Her Way Through
页码: 175–187
Education/Educación for Latinas in Chicago
页码: 189–216
Reflections on Confronting Intolerance
页码: 217–230
References
页码: 231–242
Educational Researchers and their students
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