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Latina immigrant mothers as creators of a cultural curriculum of the home
Calderon Berumen, Freyca
Calderon Berumen, Freyca
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[Fort Worth, Tex.] : Texas Christian University,
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2015
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This research explores the experiences of Latina immigrant women who have raised or are raising children in the United States to know what are the kinds of issues these mothers encounter when educating bilingual and bicultural children in the mainstream society. As part of a minoritized group, Latina immigrant women have personal lived experiences that inform and affect the ways they interact with the world on a daily basis and have shaped their personal and cultural identities. Those personal experiences are introduced in a testimonio, a personal narrative that portrays a collective story. Because of their experiences in becoming immigrants, these women have also developed particular ways of knowing, being, and doing that form and guide their ways of mothering. Drawing on the Delgado Bernal, et.al, (2006) notion of pedagogies of the home, this study presents the themes that participants described as their pedagogies of the home: language, family bonds, educaci?n, and cultural consciousness. The findings on the ways that participants enact the pedagogies of the home and their ways of mothering suggest that Latina immigrant women create and develop a cultural curriculum of the home that aims at embracing personal and cultural identity. The main implications of this research target teachers, administrators, policy makers and any other educator to call for their attention to find alternate ways of improving parental involvement, especially from minoritized groups, which cultural practices may differ from those of the dominant culture.
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Hispanic American mothers Education.
Critical pedagogy.
Education, Bilingual United States.
Biculturalism.
Home and school United States.
Motherhood.
Critical pedagogy.
Education, Bilingual United States.
Biculturalism.
Home and school United States.
Motherhood.
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Education