"It's Almost as if I Wrote This": Transnational Migrant Farmworkers Read "Their" Lives

Autor/inn/en	Stevenson, Alma D.; Beck, Scott
Titel	"It's Almost as if I Wrote This": Transnational Migrant Farmworkers Read "Their" Lives
Quelle	In: Journal of Children's Literature, 47 (2021) 2, S.8-21 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1521-7779
Schlagwörter	Migrants; Hispanic Americans; Educational Needs; Agricultural Laborers; Migrant Children; Culturally Relevant Education; Teacher Attitudes; Social Bias; Student Attitudes; Teaching Methods; Teacher Education; Instructional Materials; Picture Books; Mexican Americans; Participant Characteristics; Memory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Migrantin; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Educational need; Bildungsbedarf; Agricultural labourers; Landarbeiter; Lehrerverhalten; Schülerverhalten; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Lehrmaterial; Lehrmittel; Unterrichtsmedien; Picture book; Bilderbuch; Gedächtnis
Abstract	The educational needs of the children of migrant laborers have often been neglected by educators who have dismissed them as someone else's responsibility (Vocke, 2007). The migrants' complex transnational experiences have been largely overlooked in school curricula. This deficiency allows anti-migrant attitudes to fester among teachers and students (Quezada et al., 2016), especially in areas of the new Latinx diaspora (Gray, 2020), where educators are unlikely to be Latinx or former migrants. An essential step toward ameliorating this erasure, neglect, and hostility is to incorporate culturally responsive pedagogy (Gay, 2018) centered on the lives, stories, and experiences of migrants into the training of teachers and the instruction of migrant children and their peers. This pedagogical approach is facilitated by culturally relevant/ sustaining instructional materials (Ladson-Billings, 1995; Paris & Alim, 2017), including enabling texts (Tatum, 2006) that accurately, appealingly, and positively depict minoritized experiences such as the transnational lives of migrant farmworkers. This article describes a study where over 30 migrancy- and transnationalism-themed children's picture storybooks (CPSBs) were assessed during multiple, semistructured focus groups among 25 Mexican-heritage recent and former migrant farmworkers. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Children's Literature Assembly. e-mail: info@childrensliteratureassembly.org; Web site: https://www.childrensliteratureassembly.org/journal.html
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01