Edward L Watson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4642352 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edward L Watson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edward L |
| FAMILY NAME | Watson |
| SIGNATURE | WATSON E L |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Fullerton |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7970-8199 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1922 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A globalized acceptance
This article introduces the concept of a Globalized Acceptance to examine how language immersion education operates through school choice. Drawing on qualitative data from an elementary Mandarin immersion program, this study analyzes how a school markets a foreign language program that attracts middle-class families. Rather than prioritizing a language that reflects the existing student population, the school promotes Mandarin Chinese as a symbol…
Diversity or Gentrification
What happens after middle-class parents arrive at an underperforming majority-minority school with a Mandarin immersion strand program? I use parent interviews and observations to examine the institutional changes in an elementary school. I show how a struggling school located in a working-class neighborhood gradually gentrifies without neighborhood demographic change. I find the immersion program creates a disconnect between the demographically …
Black Lives Matter here too
Black Lives Matter is a global movement that has gained support from an increasingly diverse racial and ethnic demographic. Universities seek ways to provide an opportunity to increase the quantity and strength of the Black perspective. Using research methods, a fundamental social science course, this paper demonstrates that it is possible to view methods as a course where we can adequately reflect on conversations about race and other social ine…
Introduction
Keeping Up with the (Zh)oneses
Dual language immersion programs are growing in popularity across America. This article examines the explanations middle-class parents of various racial/ethnic backgrounds give for enrolling their children in Mandarin Immersion Programs. The author addresses the following questions: Why do American parents enroll their children in Mandarin Immersion Programs? How do parents from different racial groups frame the benefits of immersion? The analysi…
The Coastal Periglacial Slope Deposits of the Cotentin Peninsula
The head deposits of Cotentin form a terrace sloping seaward and are generally interpreted as being banked against an old cliff line. They are frequently seen to rest on raised beach gravels at the junction of the head and this rock cliff. In the central parts of the bays, the basal beds up to 2 m thick consist of grey silty and gravelly flows sometimes enclosing lenses of organic silt. These beds appear to rest on bedrock and have been found in …
The Braille Centenary
Royal Normal College for the Blind
Keeping Up with the (Zh)oneses
Dual language immersion programs are growing in popularity across America. This article examines the explanations middle-class parents of various racial/ethnic backgrounds give for enrolling their children in Mandarin Immersion Programs. The author addresses the following questions: Why do American parents enroll their children in Mandarin Immersion Programs? How do parents from different racial groups frame the benefits of immersion? The analysi…
The Coastal Periglacial Slope Deposits of the Cotentin Peninsula
The head deposits of Cotentin form a terrace sloping seaward and are generally interpreted as being banked against an old cliff line. They are frequently seen to rest on raised beach gravels at the junction of the head and this rock cliff. In the central parts of the bays, the basal beds up to 2 m thick consist of grey silty and gravelly flows sometimes enclosing lenses of organic silt. These beds appear to rest on bedrock and have been found in …
Royal Normal College for the Blind
The Braille Centenary
The Coastal Periglacial Slope Deposits of the Cotentin Peninsula
The head deposits of Cotentin form a terrace sloping seaward and are generally interpreted as being banked against an old cliff line. They are frequently seen to rest on raised beach gravels at the junction of the head and this rock cliff. In the central parts of the bays, the basal beds up to 2 m thick consist of grey silty and gravelly flows sometimes enclosing lenses of organic silt. These beds appear to rest on bedrock and have been found in …
Keeping Up with the (Zh)oneses
Dual language immersion programs are growing in popularity across America. This article examines the explanations middle-class parents of various racial/ethnic backgrounds give for enrolling their children in Mandarin Immersion Programs. The author addresses the following questions: Why do American parents enroll their children in Mandarin Immersion Programs? How do parents from different racial groups frame the benefits of immersion? The analysi…
Black Lives Matter here too
Black Lives Matter is a global movement that has gained support from an increasingly diverse racial and ethnic demographic. Universities seek ways to provide an opportunity to increase the quantity and strength of the Black perspective. Using research methods, a fundamental social science course, this paper demonstrates that it is possible to view methods as a course where we can adequately reflect on conversations about race and other social ine…
Introduction
A globalized acceptance
This article introduces the concept of a Globalized Acceptance to examine how language immersion education operates through school choice. Drawing on qualitative data from an elementary Mandarin immersion program, this study analyzes how a school markets a foreign language program that attracts middle-class families. Rather than prioritizing a language that reflects the existing student population, the school promotes Mandarin Chinese as a symbol…
Diversity or Gentrification
What happens after middle-class parents arrive at an underperforming majority-minority school with a Mandarin immersion strand program? I use parent interviews and observations to examine the institutional changes in an elementary school. I show how a struggling school located in a working-class neighborhood gradually gentrifies without neighborhood demographic change. I find the immersion program creates a disconnect between the demographically …
Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Mandarin Chinese (2 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (2 works) · Parental Involvement in Education (2 works)