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Author Campano, Gerald.

Title Immigrant students and literacy : reading, writing, and remembering / Gerald Campano ; foreword by Sonia Nieto.

Publication Info. New York : Teachers College Press, [2007]
©2007

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  371.826 C186I    Check Shelf
Description xvii, 135 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Practitioner inquiry series
Practitioner inquiry series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-124) and index.
Contents Introduction : the national mythology and urban teaching -- The power of inquiry. "From the heart to the world and back again" : negotiating the boundaries ; Celso's secret box : creating community through shared stories ; Carmen's unwritten story : failing our students with remediation -- Literacy practices in the "second classroom." "We are strong and sturdy in the heart" : redefining accountability ; "I will tell you a little bit about my people" : narrating immigrant pasts ; "They came here for their lives" : writing transnational identities ; Dancing across borders : performing identities -- The process of inquiry. Continuing stories ; Systematic improvisation : a way of teaching and researching.
Subject Children of immigrants -- Education -- United States.
Multicultural education -- United States.
Language arts -- United States.
ISBN 0807747327 paperback alkaline paper
9780807747322 paperback alkaline paper
0807747335 cloth alkaline paper
9780807747339 cloth alkaline paper
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