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Koshino, Kako – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2023
This case study examines how preservice teachers make meaning of "American culture" while being cognizant of personal bonding between a Japanese ex-inmate and the community he connected with in prison--whom he refers to affectionately as his Chicano homies--in the college course "Culture and Languages of the United States." The…
Descriptors: North Americans, Cultural Awareness, Hispanic American Culture, Foreign Countries
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Blanton, Carlos Kevin – Teachers College Record, 2012
This biographical study of Dr. George I. Sanchez, a leading Mexican American educator, intellectual, and activist from the 1930s through the 1960s, opens up the idea of compensatory education--the prevalent notion of the 1960s that schools use specialized instructional programs to combat the alleged cultural deprivation of some children,…
Descriptors: Mexican American Education, Educational History, Biographies, Compensatory Education
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Nievar, M. Angela; Jacobson, Arminta; Chen, Qi; Johnson, Ursula; Dier, Shannon – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2011
This study investigated effects of Home Instruction of Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY), a paraprofessional home visiting program, on parents and children. The program site served low-income, Spanish-speaking families. On average, mothers were 31 years old (SD = 4.78) and children were 3 or 4 years old (M = 3.92, SD = 0.92). Participants (n…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement, Minority Group Children, Family Environment