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1 online resource (xiii, 237 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-231) and indexes. |
Contents |
Reconceptualizing Educational Activities Into Social Action -- An Uneasy Presence: Latino Representation in Higher Education -- Eligibility as Cultural and Social Capital -- Down the Street but Worlds Apart: Separated by Language and Culture -- Bilingual Identity -- New Vistas and New Expectations -- A New Identity and New Possibilities: An Innovation of the Fifth Dimension -- Fifth Dimension Origins -- La Clase Magica's Double Identity -- Lessons Learned About Cultural Relevance -- A System of Relations for Acting Locally, Thinking Glob ally, and Planning Long Term -- Separate Stories of Shared Spaces: UCSD and Eden Gardens -- A Functional System for Social Action or "Un Sistema de Incorporacion de Esfuerzo" -- Seeing the Future in the Present -- With Great Expectations -- A System of Artifacts for a Methodology in Action -- Culture and Mind in Play: Navigating the Frontiers Between Fantasy and Reality -- Collapsing the Paradox: Imagining Optimal Possibilities -- Transformation of the Reader-Friend -- Language and Identity in a Bilingual Learning Environment -- Social Construction of Identity -- A Bilingual-Bicultural System of Mediation -- Three Cultural Artifacts in Action -- A Case Study of Two Wizard Assistants -- Multiple Identities in a Bilingual Context -- Educational Implications for Schooling in the 21 Century -- Politics of Participation: Navigating Cultural Borders -- Living a Border Reality in Social Relations -- A Community of Learners at the Border(s). |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Summary |
La Clase Mágica: Imagining Optimal Possibilities in a Bilingual Community of Learners vividly captures the social and intellectual developments and the promises of an ongoing after-school project called La Clase Mágica. It is a blow-by-blow description of the early transformations of a project that began as an educational activity and slowly but deliberately turned into a social action project whose aim was to serve those with low economic and political means and little access to educational resources. This multivocal account details research in action for effectively serving Spanish-En. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Minorities -- Education -- United States.
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Minorities -- Education. |
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United States. |
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Education, Bilingual -- United States.
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Education, Bilingual. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Vasquez, Olga A. Clase mágica 0805840230 (DLC) 2002067162 (OCoLC)49518947 |
ISBN |
9781135463823 (electronic book) |
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1135463824 (electronic book) |
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1306001390 (e-book) |
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9781306001397 (e-book) |
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0805840230 |
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9780805840230 |
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0805840249 |
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9780805840247 |
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