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Abraham, Stephanie – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2015
In this paper, I use critical discourse analysis to analyze a student's narrative about the arrest, incarceration, and deportation of her mother to Mexico. The student, Gisela, was a fifth grader in my classroom during the 2008/2009 school year, and I encouraged the students to collect family stories from their relatives. Gisela created this…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Immigrants, Mothers, Foreign Countries
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Strickland, Martha – Middle Grades Research Journal, 2012
As the number of immigrant students increases in U.S. classrooms, so have the challenges teachers encounter as they seek to be culturally responsive. Framed by multicultural education and sociocultural theory, this qualitative study explored how 8 fifth-grade, newly arrived immigrant students ("newcomers") from 6 different countries,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Grade 5, World Views