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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 Author:Guadalupe Valdes Con Respecto 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 Valdes examines what appears to be a lack of interest in education by Mexican parents and shows, through extensive qu... more »otations and numerous anecdotes, that these familes 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 no genuinely respect the values of diverse families -- may have long-term negative consequences for children.
Con Respecto will be a valuable resource in graduate courses in foundations, ethnographic research, sociology and anthropology of education, multicultureal education, and child development; and of a particular interest to professors and researchers. « less