Latina Teachers - Creating Careers and Guarding Culture

"1. From "Americanization" to "Latinization" 2. "I Just Fell into It": Pathways into the Teaching Profession 3. Cultural Guardians: The Professional Missions of Latina Teachers 4. Co-ethnic Cultural Guardianship: Space, Race and Region 5. Bicultural Myths, Rifts and Shifts 6. Standardized Tests and Workplace Tensions."

About the author

Glenda M. Flores is an Assistant Professor of Chicano/Latino Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. She was born and raised in Santa Ana, CA.

Summary

"1. From "Americanization" to "Latinization" 2. "I Just Fell into It": Pathways into the Teaching Profession 3. Cultural Guardians: The Professional Missions of Latina Teachers 4. Co-ethnic Cultural Guardianship: Space, Race and Region 5. Bicultural Myths, Rifts and Shifts 6. Standardized Tests and Workplace Tensions."

Product details

• Authors: Glenda M Flores, Glenda M. Flores
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9781479813537
• ISBN: 978-1-4798-1353-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Latina/O Sociology; Latina/O Sociology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore