Cross-cultural Literacy

Steven F. Arvizu, Marietta Saravia-Shore

• Preface 1. Introduction to Cross-Cultural Literacy: An Anthropological Approach to Dealing with Diversity Marietta Saravia-Shore and Steven F. Arvizu Part 1: Cross-Culturally Compatible Schooling 2. "Just Open the Door": Cultural Compatibility and Classroom Rapport Cathie Jordan, Roland G. Tharp and Lynn Baird-Vogt 3. African-American Students in Exemplary Urban High Schools: The Interaction of School Practices and Student Actions Vernay Mitchell 4. Home-School Linkages: A Cross-Cultural Approach to Parent Participation Steven F. Arvizu 5. Our Voices, Our Vision: American Indians Speak Out for Educational Excellence National Dialogue Project on American Indian Education Part 2: Community Contexts 6. Bilingual Education in Community Contexts: A Two-Site Comparative Research Design Steven F. Arvizu, Eduardo Hernández-Chavez, Judith Guskin and Concepción Valadez 7. The Context of Bilingual Education in Milwaukee: Complex Ethnic Relationships in an Urban Setting Judith Guskin 8. Bilingual Education in a Chinese Community: An Ethnography in Progress Grace Pung Guthrie 9. Individual Differences in Growing up Bilingual Ana Celia Zentella 10. An Ethnographic Study of Home/School Role Conflicts of Second Generation Puerto Rican Adolescents Marietta Saravia-Shore and Herminio Martínez 11. Bilingualism In and Out of School: Ethnographic Perspectives on the Determination of Language "Dominance" Pedro Pedraza and Alicia Pousada 12. Bilingual Progran Evaluation Policy: Implications from Ethnographic Research Marietta Saravia-Shore Part 3: Constructing Classroom Contexts 13. On Ethnographic Studies and Multicultural Education Henry T. Trueda and Pamela G. Wright 14. Making Contexts: The Social Construction of Lessons in Two Languages Luis C. Moll, Stephen Diaz, Elette Estrada and Lawrence M. Lopes 15. Communicative Competence in a Bilingual Early Childhood Classroom Dinah Volk 16. Language Use, Lesson Engagement, and Participation Structures: A Microethnographic Analysis of Two Language Arts Lessons in a Bilingual First-Grade Classroom Robert L. Carrasco, Carmel T. Acosta and Sylvia de la Torre-Spencer 17. Theoretical and Methodological Issues in the Ethnographic Study of Teachers’ Differential Treatment of Children in Bilingual Bicultural Classrooms Abdil Abel Maldonado-Guzman 18. Stories of Hope in the Midst of Despair: Culturally Responsive Education for Latino Students in an Alternative High School in New York City Maria E. Torres-Guzman 19. Implications for Policy and Practice Marietta Saravia-Shore and Steven F. Arvizu