Concha Delgado-Gaitan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3641052 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Concha Delgado-Gaitan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Concha |
| FAMILY NAME | Delgado-Gaitan |
| SIGNATURE | DELGADO-GAITAN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 138 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Power of Community
Fifteen years ago, Concha Delgado-Gaitan began literacy research in Carpinteria, California. At that time, Mexican immigrants who labored in nurseries, factories, and housekeeping, had almost no voice in how their children were educated. Committed to participative research, Delgado-Gaitan collaborated with the community to connect family, school, and community. Regular community gatherings gave birth to the ComitZ de Padres Latinos. Refusing the …
Some Contributions of Anthropology to Professional Education
T hese books, which have been stacking up on my desk the last two years, supposedly represent the latest in the subdiscipline of anthropology and education. What excited me were the sections of these books that sought to develop an ethnology or theoretical perspective of education as distinct from an ethnography of education and the attempts to implement the ethnography of education. The books are both methodological (descriptive and scientific) …
School Matters in the Mexican-American Home
This study describes family interaction, depicting home socialization around education issues in six families in a California community. Departing from the deficit hypothesis applied to Mexican-American families, I assert that the strengths of the family, as portrayed in the tradition of social science theory, have important relevance to education. A close-range examination of the home interactional environment revealed three significant componen…
Involving Parents in the Schools
This four-year study in a southern California school district examined parent-involvement activities as they encouraged isolated Spanish-speaking parents to participate more fully in their children's schooling. The findings showed that conventional avenues for involving parents in school were closed to many parents because specific cultural knowledge (which, in essence, is power) was required in order to participate effectively. On the other hand…
Sociocultural Adjustment to School and Academic Achievement
This study describes the sociocultural, personal and interactional context in which a young Mexican male adolescent participates. The interrelations between these factors reveal the difficulties which some Mexican immigrant students confront in their acculturation process and the affects of those influences on their academic achievement. The acculturation process referred to here assumes that an immigrant student can acquire a new language and cu…
The Value of Conformity
This study of 12 high school Chicano students and their families in La Victoria, Colorado, provides an understanding of the social conditions that assist some students to stay in school while others feel compelled to leave. Identified common denominators among these students included their residential tenure in the United States, language, socioeconomic status, and residential location at the time of the study. Differences of experiences among st…
Adolescent Peer Influence and Differential School Performance
Peer influence on student performance in school is the focus of this paper. The ethonographic study was conducted with high school dropouts and non-dropouts in a Colorado community. The contextual interactive model is used to explain the peer membership and influence process. One of the tenets of this model, supported by the findings, posits that peer group organization is interrelated with other student social networks including the family and s…
Teacher Attitudes on Diversity Affecting Student Socio-Academic Responses
An alternative theoretical perspective underlies this ethnographic study on high school students' schooling practices. Teacher attitudes in the classroom were identified and described by the students and parents as qualitatively affecting the students academic performance. Students devise long term strategies to deal with the emotional impact of teachers' disapproving attitudes. Teacher perceptions toward social and ethnic diversity govern teache…
Ethnographic Study of Participant Structures in Task Completion
Ethnographic studies are becoming increasingly popular due to their ability to arrive at the meaning of interactional events through sociocultural and linguistic cues of observed behavior. Using an ethnographic approach, the present study was conducted in an effort to offer an alternative to many teachers' misinterpretation of Mexican children's copying as indicating low academic ability and inappropriate work habits. Through careful observation …
School Matters in the Mexican-American Home
This study describes family interaction, depicting home socialization around education issues in six families in a California community. Departing from the deficit hypothesis applied to Mexican-American families, I assert that the strengths of the family, as portrayed in the tradition of social science theory, have important relevance to education. A close-range examination of the home interactional environment revealed three significant componen…
Involving Parents in the Schools
This four-year study in a southern California school district examined parent-involvement activities as they encouraged isolated Spanish-speaking parents to participate more fully in their children's schooling. The findings showed that conventional avenues for involving parents in school were closed to many parents because specific cultural knowledge (which, in essence, is power) was required in order to participate effectively. On the other hand…
The Value of Conformity
This study of 12 high school Chicano students and their families in La Victoria, Colorado, provides an understanding of the social conditions that assist some students to stay in school while others feel compelled to leave. Identified common denominators among these students included their residential tenure in the United States, language, socioeconomic status, and residential location at the time of the study. Differences of experiences among st…
Sociocultural Adjustment to School and Academic Achievement
This study describes the sociocultural, personal and interactional context in which a young Mexican male adolescent participates. The interrelations between these factors reveal the difficulties which some Mexican immigrant students confront in their acculturation process and the affects of those influences on their academic achievement. The acculturation process referred to here assumes that an immigrant student can acquire a new language and cu…
Adolescent Peer Influence and Differential School Performance
Peer influence on student performance in school is the focus of this paper. The ethonographic study was conducted with high school dropouts and non-dropouts in a Colorado community. The contextual interactive model is used to explain the peer membership and influence process. One of the tenets of this model, supported by the findings, posits that peer group organization is interrelated with other student social networks including the family and s…
Teacher Attitudes on Diversity Affecting Student Socio-Academic Responses
An alternative theoretical perspective underlies this ethnographic study on high school students' schooling practices. Teacher attitudes in the classroom were identified and described by the students and parents as qualitatively affecting the students academic performance. Students devise long term strategies to deal with the emotional impact of teachers' disapproving attitudes. Teacher perceptions toward social and ethnic diversity govern teache…
Ethnographic Study of Participant Structures in Task Completion
Ethnographic studies are becoming increasingly popular due to their ability to arrive at the meaning of interactional events through sociocultural and linguistic cues of observed behavior. Using an ethnographic approach, the present study was conducted in an effort to offer an alternative to many teachers' misinterpretation of Mexican children's copying as indicating low academic ability and inappropriate work habits. Through careful observation …
Adolescent Peer Influence and Differential School Performance
Peer influence on student performance in school is the focus of this paper. The ethonographic study was conducted with high school dropouts and non-dropouts in a Colorado community. The contextual interactive model is used to explain the peer membership and influence process. One of the tenets of this model, supported by the findings, posits that peer group organization is interrelated with other student social networks including the family and s…
Teacher Attitudes on Diversity Affecting Student Socio-Academic Responses
An alternative theoretical perspective underlies this ethnographic study on high school students' schooling practices. Teacher attitudes in the classroom were identified and described by the students and parents as qualitatively affecting the students academic performance. Students devise long term strategies to deal with the emotional impact of teachers' disapproving attitudes. Teacher perceptions toward social and ethnic diversity govern teache…
Sociocultural Adjustment to School and Academic Achievement
This study describes the sociocultural, personal and interactional context in which a young Mexican male adolescent participates. The interrelations between these factors reveal the difficulties which some Mexican immigrant students confront in their acculturation process and the affects of those influences on their academic achievement. The acculturation process referred to here assumes that an immigrant student can acquire a new language and cu…
The Value of Conformity
This study of 12 high school Chicano students and their families in La Victoria, Colorado, provides an understanding of the social conditions that assist some students to stay in school while others feel compelled to leave. Identified common denominators among these students included their residential tenure in the United States, language, socioeconomic status, and residential location at the time of the study. Differences of experiences among st…
Involving Parents in the Schools
This four-year study in a southern California school district examined parent-involvement activities as they encouraged isolated Spanish-speaking parents to participate more fully in their children's schooling. The findings showed that conventional avenues for involving parents in school were closed to many parents because specific cultural knowledge (which, in essence, is power) was required in order to participate effectively. On the other hand…
Some Contributions of Anthropology to Professional Education
T hese books, which have been stacking up on my desk the last two years, supposedly represent the latest in the subdiscipline of anthropology and education. What excited me were the sections of these books that sought to develop an ethnology or theoretical perspective of education as distinct from an ethnography of education and the attempts to implement the ethnography of education. The books are both methodological (descriptive and scientific) …
School Matters in the Mexican-American Home
This study describes family interaction, depicting home socialization around education issues in six families in a California community. Departing from the deficit hypothesis applied to Mexican-American families, I assert that the strengths of the family, as portrayed in the tradition of social science theory, have important relevance to education. A close-range examination of the home interactional environment revealed three significant componen…
The Power of Community
Fifteen years ago, Concha Delgado-Gaitan began literacy research in Carpinteria, California. At that time, Mexican immigrants who labored in nurseries, factories, and housekeeping, had almost no voice in how their children were educated. Committed to participative research, Delgado-Gaitan collaborated with the community to connect family, school, and community. Regular community gatherings gave birth to the ComitZ de Padres Latinos. Refusing the …
Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Mathematics education (6 works) · Parental Involvement in Education (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (5 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Indigenous Cultures and Socio-Education (3 works)