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Con Respeto: Bridging the Distances Between Culturally Diverse Families and Schools: An Ethnographic Portrait

Con Respeto: Bridging the Distances Between Culturally Diverse Families and Schools: An Ethnographic Portrait

Valdes, Guadalupe

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AnthropologyGeneral EducationLatino Studies

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ISBN10: 0807735264
ISBN13: 9780807735268
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: Jun 15 1996
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.14 Depth: 8.94
Language: English

Con Respeto: Bridging the Distances Between Culturally Diverse Families and Schools--An Ethnographic Portrait presents a study of ten Mexican immigrant families, with a special focus on mothers, that describes how such families go about the business of surviving and learning to succeed in a new world. Guadalupe Valdés examines what appears to be a lack of interest in education by Mexican parents and shows, through extensive quotations and numerous anecdotes, that these families are both rich and strong in family values, and that they bring with them clear views of what constitutes success and failure. The book's conclusion questions the merit of typical family intervention programs designed to promote school success and suggests that these interventions--because they do not genuinely respect the values of diverse families--may have long-term negative consequences for children.

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