Lesley Bartlett
Biographic Data
| ID | 132168 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lesley Bartlett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lesley |
| FAMILY NAME | Bartlett |
| SIGNATURE | BARTLETT L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1025-8545 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 286 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Translating Global Ideas: How Policy Legacies and Domestic Politics Shape Education Governance in Latin America
Cruzar fronteras em espaços acadêmicos: Transgressing “the limits of translanguaging”
Scholarship on translanguaging and related concepts has challenged traditional assumptions about how people use their multiple languages, urging us to move beyond the boundaries of named linguistic codes and toward conceptualizations of multilingual language use as flexible use of a speaker’s whole linguistic repertoire. Critiques of this theoretical shift have included assertions of translanguaging’s conceptual and practical limits—limits to its…
Measure Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension in International Reading Efforts
Building Student Awareness of Literacy Practices: Anthropological Perspectives
Authors featured in this department share anthropological perspectives and qualitative insights to redefine community in adolescent and adult literacy practice
Rethinking the concept of “context” in comparative research
This chapter examines the dilemma often posed between context, on the one hand, and comparison, on the other, in research in education and allied fields. It discusses various uses of context that have shaped the field of comparative and international education, in particular, and elaborates on some of their limitations. The chapter also explains how a comparative case study (CCS) approach reconceptualizes the notion of context by incorporating ho…
Academic and Extracurricular Support for Refugee Students in the US: Lessons Learned
This article examines students' experiences as resettled refugee and asylee students in international schools in New York City. Specifically, it looks at how teachers and school leaders provide critical academic and extracurricular support to facilitate students' adjustment to academic environments that differ markedly from those compared in their countries of origin or the countries of asylum visited prior to their arrival in the United States. …
Cruel Optimism: Migration and Schooling for Dominican Newcomer Immigrant Youth
What is the relationship among migration, education, and socio-emotional well-being? This article draws on ethnographic research with Dominican youth to examine the impact of maternal migration on young immigrants and their educational aspirations. We detail how the youth come to conflate mother love, the sacrifices of migration, and educational investment. We argue that this conflation represents a "cruel optimism" (Berlant ), wherein the imposs…
Critical transnational curriculum for immigrant and refugee students
This article explores the curricular approaches of three public high schools in the US that serve newly arrived immigrant and refugee youth, in order to define and illustrate a critical transnational curriculum. Drawing from qualitative research over the past 10 years at the different school sites, the authors posit four tenets of a critical transnational curriculum with examples of specific school practices: (1) using diversity as a learning opp…
Culture in acculturation: Refugee youth’s schooling experiences in international schools in New York City
If You Need Help, They are Always There for us”: Education for Refugees in an International High School in NYC
Comparative Case Studies: An Innovative Approach
What is a case study and what is it good for? In this article, we argue for a new approach-the comparative case study approach-that attends simultaneously to macro, meso, and micro dimensions of case-based research. The approach engages two logics of comparison: first, the more common compare and contrast; and second, a 'tracing across' sites or scales. As we explicate our approach, we also contrast it to traditional case study research. We conte…
Rethinking Case Study Research
Comparative case studies are an effective qualitative tool for researching the impact of policy and practice in various fields of social research, including education. Developed in response to the inadequacy of traditional case study approaches, comparative case studies are highly effective because of their ability to synthesize information across time and space. In Rethinking Case Study Research: A Comparative Approach, the authors describe, exp…
Rethinking Case Study Research: A Comparative Approach
Comparative case studies are an effective qualitative tool for researching the impact of policy and practice in various fields of social research, including education. Developed in response to the inadequacy of traditional case study approaches, comparative case studies are highly effective because of their ability to synthesize information across time and space. In Rethinking Case Study Research: A Comparative Approach, the authors describe, exp…
Negotiating contradictions: Educación among Dominican transnational mothers in New York City
This paper examines how a transnational orientation shapes Dominican mothers’ contradictory attitudes towards education in New York City. Through this ethnographic study, which draws on 36 interviews, community walkabouts, and participant observations in community-led adult education classes, we show how Dominican mothers struggle with conflicting values; on the one hand, they embrace the idea of schooling for individual advancement, integration …
Migração e educação: Perspectivas Socioculturais
O mundo está testemunhando uma era de mobilidade humana sem precedentes: os migrantes internacionais aumentaram de 100 milhões em 1960 para 155 milhões em 2000 e para 214 milhões em 2010 (UNDESA). No entanto, dá-se pouca importância à forma como a migração e a educação interagem para influenciar a mobilidade social e econômica. Este artigo considera a relação entre migração e educação. Na primeira seção, recorremos à teorização antropológica da m…
Problematizing early grade reading: Should the post-2015 agenda treasure what is measured
Transversing the Vertical Case Study: A Methodological Approach to Studies of Educational Policy as Practice
How can scholars trace the global production and circulation of educational policies? The vertical case study incorporates three elements: "vertical" attention across micro-, meso-, and macro-levels, or scales; a "horizontal" comparison of how policies unfold in distinct locations; and a "transversal," processual analysis of the creative appropriation of educational policies across time. The second half of the article draws upon an ethnographic s…
South-south migration and education: The case of people of Haitian descent born in the Dominican Republic
The world is witnessing an era of unprecedented human mobility and much of this movement entails migration between countries in the global south. This article contributes to the development of an important new line of inquiry within the field of comparative and international education: South-South migration and education. In the first section, I review the available literature to sketch the outlines of this phenomenon. I then examine a particular…
Additive Schooling in Subtractive Times: Bilingual Education and Dominican Immigrant Youth in the Heights
Bilingual education policy as political spectacle: Educating Latino immigrant youth in New York City
To examine the ways in which high schools in New York City attend to second language acquisition is to consider everyday actions in schools, government dealings, localized policy responses, and disparate discourses on bilingualism. It is to position the circumstances of learning and teaching English in an American high school within the problems encountered and produced when multiple educational policies collide in local settings, such as individ…
State literacies and inequality: Managing Haitian immigrants in the Dominican Republic
A Speech Community Model of Bilingual Education: Educating Latino Newcomers in the USA
With the rapid increase in immigration from Latin America to the USA, many US high schools are struggling with the thorny question of how best to educate newcomer immigrant youth with low levels of English proficiency. This paper examines what some might consider an anachronistic educational model – a segregated bilingual high school for Latino newcomers. Drawing on a qualitative case study of an unusually successful high school in Washington Hei…
Literacy's verb: Exploring what literacy is and what literacy does
The comparative ethnography of educational projects: Youth and adult literacy programmes in Brazil
This article elaborates the concept of educational projects, a term that signifies consistent constellations of institutions, financial resources, social actors, ideologies, theories of knowledge and attendant pedagogies that shape local cultural practices of schooling. The article demonstrates the utility of the concept of educational projects for comparative and international educational studies by examining competing educational projects in Br…
Figuring “Success” in a Bilingual High School
Comparative Case Studies: An Innovative Approach
What is a case study and what is it good for? In this article, we argue for a new approach-the comparative case study approach-that attends simultaneously to macro, meso, and micro dimensions of case-based research. The approach engages two logics of comparison: first, the more common compare and contrast; and second, a 'tracing across' sites or scales. As we explicate our approach, we also contrast it to traditional case study research. We conte…
Critical transnational curriculum for immigrant and refugee students
This article explores the curricular approaches of three public high schools in the US that serve newly arrived immigrant and refugee youth, in order to define and illustrate a critical transnational curriculum. Drawing from qualitative research over the past 10 years at the different school sites, the authors posit four tenets of a critical transnational curriculum with examples of specific school practices: (1) using diversity as a learning opp…
The Marketization of Education: Public Schools for Private Ends
This article argues that the neoliberal renaissance of the 1980s marketized education, with distinctly negative social consequences. We examine the emergence and promotion of a national-level discourse that positioned schools in the service of the economy. Based on ethnographic research conducted in North Carolina, we then show how local growth elite utilized this discourse to further their own race and class interests to the exclusion and detrim…
Literacy, speech and shame: The cultural politics of literacy and language in Brazil
This article examines the relationship between shame, literacy and social relations by analyzing shame narratives told to the author by youth and adult literacy students during a 24‐month ethnographic research project conducted in two Brazilian cities. Employing Bourdieu's theoretical framework and literature from the anthropology of emotions, the article asks: What is accomplished through the micropolitics of shaming? What can it teach us about …
If You Need Help, They are Always There for us”: Education for Refugees in an International High School in NYC
Transversing the Vertical Case Study: A Methodological Approach to Studies of Educational Policy as Practice
How can scholars trace the global production and circulation of educational policies? The vertical case study incorporates three elements: "vertical" attention across micro-, meso-, and macro-levels, or scales; a "horizontal" comparison of how policies unfold in distinct locations; and a "transversal," processual analysis of the creative appropriation of educational policies across time. The second half of the article draws upon an ethnographic s…
Academic and Extracurricular Support for Refugee Students in the US: Lessons Learned
This article examines students' experiences as resettled refugee and asylee students in international schools in New York City. Specifically, it looks at how teachers and school leaders provide critical academic and extracurricular support to facilitate students' adjustment to academic environments that differ markedly from those compared in their countries of origin or the countries of asylum visited prior to their arrival in the United States. …
Cruel Optimism: Migration and Schooling for Dominican Newcomer Immigrant Youth
What is the relationship among migration, education, and socio-emotional well-being? This article draws on ethnographic research with Dominican youth to examine the impact of maternal migration on young immigrants and their educational aspirations. We detail how the youth come to conflate mother love, the sacrifices of migration, and educational investment. We argue that this conflation represents a "cruel optimism" (Berlant ), wherein the imposs…
Migração e educação: Perspectivas Socioculturais
O mundo está testemunhando uma era de mobilidade humana sem precedentes: os migrantes internacionais aumentaram de 100 milhões em 1960 para 155 milhões em 2000 e para 214 milhões em 2010 (UNDESA). No entanto, dá-se pouca importância à forma como a migração e a educação interagem para influenciar a mobilidade social e econômica. Este artigo considera a relação entre migração e educação. Na primeira seção, recorremos à teorização antropológica da m…
South-south migration and education: The case of people of Haitian descent born in the Dominican Republic
The world is witnessing an era of unprecedented human mobility and much of this movement entails migration between countries in the global south. This article contributes to the development of an important new line of inquiry within the field of comparative and international education: South-South migration and education. In the first section, I review the available literature to sketch the outlines of this phenomenon. I then examine a particular…
Culture in acculturation: Refugee youth’s schooling experiences in international schools in New York City
Figuring “Success” in a Bilingual High School
Literacy's verb: Exploring what literacy is and what literacy does
Problematizing early grade reading: Should the post-2015 agenda treasure what is measured
Disciplining Social Difference: Some Cultural Politics of Military Training in Public High Schools
State literacies and inequality: Managing Haitian immigrants in the Dominican Republic
Race and Schooling: Theories and Ethnographies
Women Teaching Class: Emotional Labor in Brazilian Literacy Classes
The comparative ethnography of educational projects: Youth and adult literacy programmes in Brazil
This article elaborates the concept of educational projects, a term that signifies consistent constellations of institutions, financial resources, social actors, ideologies, theories of knowledge and attendant pedagogies that shape local cultural practices of schooling. The article demonstrates the utility of the concept of educational projects for comparative and international educational studies by examining competing educational projects in Br…
Disciplining Social Difference: Some Cultural Politics of Military Training in Public High Schools
Women Teaching Class: Emotional Labor in Brazilian Literacy Classes
The Marketization of Education: Public Schools for Private Ends
This article argues that the neoliberal renaissance of the 1980s marketized education, with distinctly negative social consequences. We examine the emergence and promotion of a national-level discourse that positioned schools in the service of the economy. Based on ethnographic research conducted in North Carolina, we then show how local growth elite utilized this discourse to further their own race and class interests to the exclusion and detrim…
World Culture or Transnational Project?
In 1963, after participating in a series of remarkably successful literacy programs with peasants in Brazil’s Northeast, Paulo Freire was invited by the populist president João Goulart to head a national commission on popular culture. From that position, nestled within the national bureaucracy and using the state’s machinery (or creating new machinery when necessary), Freire was expected to diffuse his radical political-educational philosophy and…
Race and Schooling: Theories and Ethnographies
A Speech Community Model of Bilingual Education: Educating Latino Newcomers in the USA
With the rapid increase in immigration from Latin America to the USA, many US high schools are struggling with the thorny question of how best to educate newcomer immigrant youth with low levels of English proficiency. This paper examines what some might consider an anachronistic educational model – a segregated bilingual high school for Latino newcomers. Drawing on a qualitative case study of an unusually successful high school in Washington Hei…
Literacy's verb: Exploring what literacy is and what literacy does
The comparative ethnography of educational projects: Youth and adult literacy programmes in Brazil
This article elaborates the concept of educational projects, a term that signifies consistent constellations of institutions, financial resources, social actors, ideologies, theories of knowledge and attendant pedagogies that shape local cultural practices of schooling. The article demonstrates the utility of the concept of educational projects for comparative and international educational studies by examining competing educational projects in Br…
Figuring “Success” in a Bilingual High School
Literacy, speech and shame: The cultural politics of literacy and language in Brazil
This article examines the relationship between shame, literacy and social relations by analyzing shame narratives told to the author by youth and adult literacy students during a 24‐month ethnographic research project conducted in two Brazilian cities. Employing Bourdieu's theoretical framework and literature from the anthropology of emotions, the article asks: What is accomplished through the micropolitics of shaming? What can it teach us about …
Additive Schooling in Subtractive Times: Bilingual Education and Dominican Immigrant Youth in the Heights
Bilingual education policy as political spectacle: Educating Latino immigrant youth in New York City
To examine the ways in which high schools in New York City attend to second language acquisition is to consider everyday actions in schools, government dealings, localized policy responses, and disparate discourses on bilingualism. It is to position the circumstances of learning and teaching English in an American high school within the problems encountered and produced when multiple educational policies collide in local settings, such as individ…
State literacies and inequality: Managing Haitian immigrants in the Dominican Republic
South-south migration and education: The case of people of Haitian descent born in the Dominican Republic
The world is witnessing an era of unprecedented human mobility and much of this movement entails migration between countries in the global south. This article contributes to the development of an important new line of inquiry within the field of comparative and international education: South-South migration and education. In the first section, I review the available literature to sketch the outlines of this phenomenon. I then examine a particular…
Problematizing early grade reading: Should the post-2015 agenda treasure what is measured
Transversing the Vertical Case Study: A Methodological Approach to Studies of Educational Policy as Practice
How can scholars trace the global production and circulation of educational policies? The vertical case study incorporates three elements: "vertical" attention across micro-, meso-, and macro-levels, or scales; a "horizontal" comparison of how policies unfold in distinct locations; and a "transversal," processual analysis of the creative appropriation of educational policies across time. The second half of the article draws upon an ethnographic s…
Migração e educação: Perspectivas Socioculturais
O mundo está testemunhando uma era de mobilidade humana sem precedentes: os migrantes internacionais aumentaram de 100 milhões em 1960 para 155 milhões em 2000 e para 214 milhões em 2010 (UNDESA). No entanto, dá-se pouca importância à forma como a migração e a educação interagem para influenciar a mobilidade social e econômica. Este artigo considera a relação entre migração e educação. Na primeira seção, recorremos à teorização antropológica da m…
Rethinking Case Study Research
Comparative case studies are an effective qualitative tool for researching the impact of policy and practice in various fields of social research, including education. Developed in response to the inadequacy of traditional case study approaches, comparative case studies are highly effective because of their ability to synthesize information across time and space. In Rethinking Case Study Research: A Comparative Approach, the authors describe, exp…
Rethinking Case Study Research: A Comparative Approach
Comparative case studies are an effective qualitative tool for researching the impact of policy and practice in various fields of social research, including education. Developed in response to the inadequacy of traditional case study approaches, comparative case studies are highly effective because of their ability to synthesize information across time and space. In Rethinking Case Study Research: A Comparative Approach, the authors describe, exp…
Negotiating contradictions: Educación among Dominican transnational mothers in New York City
This paper examines how a transnational orientation shapes Dominican mothers’ contradictory attitudes towards education in New York City. Through this ethnographic study, which draws on 36 interviews, community walkabouts, and participant observations in community-led adult education classes, we show how Dominican mothers struggle with conflicting values; on the one hand, they embrace the idea of schooling for individual advancement, integration …
Critical transnational curriculum for immigrant and refugee students
This article explores the curricular approaches of three public high schools in the US that serve newly arrived immigrant and refugee youth, in order to define and illustrate a critical transnational curriculum. Drawing from qualitative research over the past 10 years at the different school sites, the authors posit four tenets of a critical transnational curriculum with examples of specific school practices: (1) using diversity as a learning opp…
Culture in acculturation: Refugee youth’s schooling experiences in international schools in New York City
If You Need Help, They are Always There for us”: Education for Refugees in an International High School in NYC
Comparative Case Studies: An Innovative Approach
What is a case study and what is it good for? In this article, we argue for a new approach-the comparative case study approach-that attends simultaneously to macro, meso, and micro dimensions of case-based research. The approach engages two logics of comparison: first, the more common compare and contrast; and second, a 'tracing across' sites or scales. As we explicate our approach, we also contrast it to traditional case study research. We conte…
Rethinking the concept of “context” in comparative research
This chapter examines the dilemma often posed between context, on the one hand, and comparison, on the other, in research in education and allied fields. It discusses various uses of context that have shaped the field of comparative and international education, in particular, and elaborates on some of their limitations. The chapter also explains how a comparative case study (CCS) approach reconceptualizes the notion of context by incorporating ho…
Political science (23 works) · Sociology (22 works) · Pedagogy (13 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (10 works) · Immigration (9 works) · Anthropology (8 works) · Ethnography (8 works) · Gender Studies (8 works)