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Greenfield, Patricia Marks; Quiroz, Blanca; Raeff, Catherine – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2000
Analyzes the discourse between Latino immigrant parents and their children's elementary school teacher during parent-teacher conferences. Finds that parents and teachers often use different criteria to evaluate children's progress, with the teacher holding more individualistic goals for the child's development and the parents' goals being more…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Discourse Analysis