Irma M Olmedo
Biographic Data
| ID | 128481 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Irma M Olmedo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Irma M |
| FAMILY NAME | Olmedo |
| SIGNATURE | OLMEDO I M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Blending Borders of Language and Culture
This article examines the efforts of a school in a Mexican community in Chicago to help children and parents capitalize on the language and culture of their 2 worlds. It builds on the concepts of border crossings and hybridity, metaphors used to describe the sociocultural and linguistic reality of people living transnationally. Some US communities though far from Mexico, nevertheless experience a border resulting from urban segregation in housing…
Quality Education for Latinos and Latinas
Raising Transnational Issues in a Multicultural Curriculum Project
The changing demographics of America’s population increases the need for educators to develop multicultural curricula for the nation’s schools. This article describes the efforts of a group of teachers to learn about the funds of knowledge of Mexican students by doing field research in a state in Mexico with one of the largest migrations to Chicago. The article discusses their successes and the challenges of developing curricula that go beyond th…
Accommodation and Resistance
Accommodation and resistance are not dichotomous phenomena but, rather, interwoven strategies for immigrants trying to survive in a cultural environment different from their own. Both strategies are responses to conflict, especially in the education of children. This article examines these conflicts among two generations of Latinas, and the ways in which they capitalized on their funds of knowledge to resolve conflicts. The issues involve not onl…
What Grandmothers Can Teach us About Puerto Rican Culture and Community
The memorias of Puerto Rican abuelas (grandmothers) can be a valuable source for understanding how these women see themselves as members of a community and how they characterize what constitutes the Puerto Rican community in the diaspora. Project Memorias sought to elicit the memoires of a group of elderly Puerto Rican women in order to understand aspects of Puerto Rican history and culture and their roles in the migration to the mainland. In the…
Bilingual Education
Bilingual Education: Teachers' Narratives. Nancy Lemberger. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1997. 206 pp
Redefining Culture Through the Memorias of Elderly Latinas
The reminiscences of elderly Latinas can be a valuable source for understanding how migrants define cultural accommodation and capitalize on aspects of their own culture to make necessary adjustments to a new one. This article is based on an oral history project carried out with elderly Latinas in the Midwest in which the women share their life stories, including their reminiscences on the adjustments they made to living in the mainland United St…
Language, Culture, and Power
Language, Culture, and Power Bilingual Families and the Struggle for Quality Education. Lourdes Diaz Soto. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. 170 pp
Challenging old assumptions
Family Oral Histories for Multicultural Curriculum Perspectives
Teachers who want to include multicultural perspectives in their curriculum can explore the funds of knowledge of the parents of their students by using oral history projects in their classrooms. This article describes a rationale and an approach for helping teachers use the life histories of parents and members of the community as scaffolds to teach social studies and history concepts. The article illustrates the approach with examples from a ca…
Voices of Our Past
This article presents an educational rationale for using oral history to teach students that there are multiple sources of knowledge and ways to seek valid information. A case study to explore the funds of knowledge within an extended Puerto Rican family is used illustratively. The study describes the leadership role played by one grandmother as the family participated in multiple migrations, describes creative ways employed by her and other wome…
Creating Contexts for Studying History with Students Learning English
Challenging old assumptions
Accommodation and Resistance
Accommodation and resistance are not dichotomous phenomena but, rather, interwoven strategies for immigrants trying to survive in a cultural environment different from their own. Both strategies are responses to conflict, especially in the education of children. This article examines these conflicts among two generations of Latinas, and the ways in which they capitalized on their funds of knowledge to resolve conflicts. The issues involve not onl…
Redefining Culture Through the Memorias of Elderly Latinas
The reminiscences of elderly Latinas can be a valuable source for understanding how migrants define cultural accommodation and capitalize on aspects of their own culture to make necessary adjustments to a new one. This article is based on an oral history project carried out with elderly Latinas in the Midwest in which the women share their life stories, including their reminiscences on the adjustments they made to living in the mainland United St…
Voices of Our Past
This article presents an educational rationale for using oral history to teach students that there are multiple sources of knowledge and ways to seek valid information. A case study to explore the funds of knowledge within an extended Puerto Rican family is used illustratively. The study describes the leadership role played by one grandmother as the family participated in multiple migrations, describes creative ways employed by her and other wome…
Raising Transnational Issues in a Multicultural Curriculum Project
The changing demographics of America’s population increases the need for educators to develop multicultural curricula for the nation’s schools. This article describes the efforts of a group of teachers to learn about the funds of knowledge of Mexican students by doing field research in a state in Mexico with one of the largest migrations to Chicago. The article discusses their successes and the challenges of developing curricula that go beyond th…
Blending Borders of Language and Culture
This article examines the efforts of a school in a Mexican community in Chicago to help children and parents capitalize on the language and culture of their 2 worlds. It builds on the concepts of border crossings and hybridity, metaphors used to describe the sociocultural and linguistic reality of people living transnationally. Some US communities though far from Mexico, nevertheless experience a border resulting from urban segregation in housing…
Family Oral Histories for Multicultural Curriculum Perspectives
Teachers who want to include multicultural perspectives in their curriculum can explore the funds of knowledge of the parents of their students by using oral history projects in their classrooms. This article describes a rationale and an approach for helping teachers use the life histories of parents and members of the community as scaffolds to teach social studies and history concepts. The article illustrates the approach with examples from a ca…
Creating Contexts for Studying History with Students Learning English
Challenging old assumptions
Family Oral Histories for Multicultural Curriculum Perspectives
Teachers who want to include multicultural perspectives in their curriculum can explore the funds of knowledge of the parents of their students by using oral history projects in their classrooms. This article describes a rationale and an approach for helping teachers use the life histories of parents and members of the community as scaffolds to teach social studies and history concepts. The article illustrates the approach with examples from a ca…
Voices of Our Past
This article presents an educational rationale for using oral history to teach students that there are multiple sources of knowledge and ways to seek valid information. A case study to explore the funds of knowledge within an extended Puerto Rican family is used illustratively. The study describes the leadership role played by one grandmother as the family participated in multiple migrations, describes creative ways employed by her and other wome…
Language, Culture, and Power
Language, Culture, and Power Bilingual Families and the Struggle for Quality Education. Lourdes Diaz Soto. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. 170 pp
Bilingual Education
Bilingual Education: Teachers' Narratives. Nancy Lemberger. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1997. 206 pp
Redefining Culture Through the Memorias of Elderly Latinas
The reminiscences of elderly Latinas can be a valuable source for understanding how migrants define cultural accommodation and capitalize on aspects of their own culture to make necessary adjustments to a new one. This article is based on an oral history project carried out with elderly Latinas in the Midwest in which the women share their life stories, including their reminiscences on the adjustments they made to living in the mainland United St…
What Grandmothers Can Teach us About Puerto Rican Culture and Community
The memorias of Puerto Rican abuelas (grandmothers) can be a valuable source for understanding how these women see themselves as members of a community and how they characterize what constitutes the Puerto Rican community in the diaspora. Project Memorias sought to elicit the memoires of a group of elderly Puerto Rican women in order to understand aspects of Puerto Rican history and culture and their roles in the migration to the mainland. In the…
Accommodation and Resistance
Accommodation and resistance are not dichotomous phenomena but, rather, interwoven strategies for immigrants trying to survive in a cultural environment different from their own. Both strategies are responses to conflict, especially in the education of children. This article examines these conflicts among two generations of Latinas, and the ways in which they capitalized on their funds of knowledge to resolve conflicts. The issues involve not onl…
Raising Transnational Issues in a Multicultural Curriculum Project
The changing demographics of America’s population increases the need for educators to develop multicultural curricula for the nation’s schools. This article describes the efforts of a group of teachers to learn about the funds of knowledge of Mexican students by doing field research in a state in Mexico with one of the largest migrations to Chicago. The article discusses their successes and the challenges of developing curricula that go beyond th…
Quality Education for Latinos and Latinas
Blending Borders of Language and Culture
This article examines the efforts of a school in a Mexican community in Chicago to help children and parents capitalize on the language and culture of their 2 worlds. It builds on the concepts of border crossings and hybridity, metaphors used to describe the sociocultural and linguistic reality of people living transnationally. Some US communities though far from Mexico, nevertheless experience a border resulting from urban segregation in housing…
Sociology (12 works) · Pedagogy (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (6 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Mathematics education (4 works) · Bilingual education (3 works) · Global Education and Multiculturalism (3 works)