So You Don't Get Tricked: Counter-Narratives of Literacy in a Rural Mexican Community

Autor/in	Meyers, Susan V.
Titel	So You Don't Get Tricked: Counter-Narratives of Literacy in a Rural Mexican Community
Quelle	In: Community Literacy Journal, 3 (2009) 2, S.19-35 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1555-9734
Schlagwörter	Mexican Americans; Foreign Countries; Rural Schools; Community Needs; Student Needs; Literacy Education; Migrant Children; Ethnography; Secondary Schools; Migrant Workers; Politics of Education; Social Influences; Public Education; Teacher Attitudes; Public Opinion; Industry; Unemployment; Family Violence; Dropouts; Reading Skills; Mexico + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hispanoamerikaner; Ausland; Rural area; Rural areas; School; Schools; Ländlicher Raum; Schule; Schulen; Ethnografie; Sekundarschule; Wanderarbeiter; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Sozialer Einfluss; Öffentliche Erziehung; Lehrerverhalten; Öffentliche Meinung; Industrie; Arbeitslosigkeit; Drop-out; Drop-outs; Dropout; Early leavers; Schulversagen; Reading skill; Lesefertigkeit; Mexiko
Abstract	A recent nine-month field study considered the relationships among school-sponsored and community forms of literacy practices in a migrant-sending area of rural Mexico. While many teachers in rural Mexico argue that students should remain in school rather than migrate to the U.S., this study demonstrates the ways in which schools in rural Mexico often do not recognize the needs of the communities that they serve. As a result, students in these schools often develop a pragmatic orientation toward formal literacy. While many of the skills that they learn help them navigate commercial and government bureaucracies, these students do not adopt the values embedded in formal education. Rather, they implicitly question the promise of education as a neutral means to social and economic mobility. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Community Literacy Journal. Department of Writing, Rhetoric, & Discourse, DePaul University, 802 West Belden Avenue, Chicago, IL 60614. Tel: 906-370-0206; Web site: http://communityliteracy.org/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10