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Cahnmann, Melisa – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2005
This article describes the work of a bilingual educator who "translated" herself from a teacher working within the deficit structures of bilingual education to an individual who worked creatively within those structures so that she and her students could resituate themselves in positions of authority and value. This one-year study of a bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Hispanic Americans, Culturally Relevant Education, Discourse Analysis