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Critical Need for Bilingual Education Teachers: The Potentiality of "Normalistas" and Paraprofessionals.
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Flores, Belinda Bustos; Keehn, Susan; Perez, Bertha – Bilingual Research Journal, 2002
A case study examined a Texas bilingual teacher education program that recruited local paraprofessionals and Mexican teachers (normalistas). Interviews, writing samples, and observations of seven students revealed that normalistas were open to seeing merit in U.S. educational methods, while paraprofessionals began to question the deficit model…
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