Exploring the Meaning of Civic Engagement in the United States: Mexican Immigrants in Central Texas

Autor/in	Munoz, Linda
Titel	Exploring the Meaning of Civic Engagement in the United States: Mexican Immigrants in Central Texas
Quelle	In: New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, (2012) 135, S.33-40 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1052-2891
DOI	10.1002/ace.20024
Schlagwörter	Immigrants; Literacy Education; Mexican Americans; Immigration; Citizenship; Democracy; Citizen Participation; Role; Interviews; Adult Education; English (Second Language); Second Language Instruction; Second Language Learning; Teacher Role; Texas + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Hispanoamerikaner; Staatsbürgerschaft; Demokratie; 'Citizen participation; Citizens'' participation'; Bürgerbeteiligung; Rollen; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Lehrerrolle
Abstract	This chapter explores how Mexican immigrants in a small central Texas town understand their roles and/or responsibilities as citizens in a democratic society regardless of their immigration status in the country. The author interviewed two men and four women about what they thought it meant to be civically engaged, and what--if any--they thought was their responsibility as: (1) U.S. permanent residents (two of the six); (2) soon to be naturalized U.S. citizens (three of the six); or (3) newly naturalized U.S. citizens (one of the six). This chapter summarizes what these six central Texas residents understood their role as citizens or permanent residents in the United States to be, and what it meant to be civically engaged regardless of their immigration status. This study can provide adult education practitioners who teach civics, citizenship, and English literacy classes with a reflexive lens by which to view their role as educators and their contributions to the history of adult civic education for immigrants. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10