Living "Glocally" with Literacy Success in the Midwest

Autor/in	Sarroub, Loukia K.
Titel	Living "Glocally" with Literacy Success in the Midwest
Quelle	In: Theory Into Practice, 47 (2008) 1, S.59-66 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0040-5841
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Immigrants; Poverty; Illiteracy; Males; Socioeconomic Status; Gender Differences; Second Language Learning; English (Second Language); Educational Practices; Refugees; North Americans; Youth; Land Settlement; Acculturation; Academic Achievement; Cultural Context; Iraq; Yemen + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Armut; Analphabetismus; Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Geschlechterkonflikt; Zweitsprachenerwerb; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Bildungspraxis; Flüchtling; Jugend; Jugendlicher; Jugendalter; Siedlungsraum; Akkulturation; Schulleistung; Irak; Jemen
Abstract	This article examines the concept of glocality as a way to better understand why immigrants, poor people, print-illiterate families, and boys are short-changed by schools that often operate under a deficit model or deprivation model in which students' economic, language, and gender status is the main determinant for school success. The author offers for discussion a set of themes that address (a) the challenges of recent immigration and resettlement in the Midwestern region of the United States, (b) the concept of glocality in connection to youth literacies and transnationalism, (c) the Midwest as a glocal context, and (d) the implications of success in relation to teachers and schools. Examples of glocality are drawn from research on Middle Eastern youth immigrant and refugee populations from Yemen and Iraq, as well as low socioeconomic American youth. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10