Juan C Guerra
Biographic Data
| ID | 5740222 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Juan C Guerra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Juan C |
| FAMILY NAME | Guerra |
| SIGNATURE | GUERRA J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Out of the Valley: Transcultural Repositioning as a Rhetorical Practice in Ethnographic Research and Other Aspects of Everyday Life
In this chapter, the author wants to trace the development of the rhetorical practice in his own life as he moved from a highly segregated housing project in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of South Texas to a multiculturally rich university in Chicago where opportunities to engage in transcultural repositioning exploded. Based on his work investigating “the extremely complex transmutations of culture” taking place in Cuba, F. Ortiz proposed the conc…
Moving Forward: Sustaining Multilingual Literacies
This department explores how teachers can sustain students’ multilingual literacies and reimagine literacy learning across multiple contexts in conversation with researchers, practitioners, and communities
The literacy practices of transfronterizos in a multilingual world
This introduction provides the background for this special issue by first describing the US–Mexico border, a fascinating context in which to research issues related to Spanish–English biliteracy and multilingualism. We present main points in the prevailing discussion within the field of literacy studies about issues of multilingualism and local–global contexts of literacy. Drawing from literature on transnational literacy, we examine arguments ab…
An Audiotaped Mental Health Evaluation Tool for Hispanic Immigrants With a Range of Literacy Levels
Close to home: Oral and literate practices in a transnational Mexicano community
Portrays the language, literacy, and cultural resources of a social network of Mexicano adults living in a rural community in Mexico and Chicago's inner city. Provides a basis for understanding how researchers, policy makers, and educators can provide these adults and their children with a relevant education that effectively embraces their schooling and lived experience. Includes a variety of oral and written sample texts, including tape recordin…
Writing in Multicultural Settings
It is as if My Story Repeats Itself: Life, Language, and Literacy in a Chicago Comunidad
Literacy in the community: A study of Mexicano families in Chicago
The study reported here is part of the Mexican‐origin Language and Literacy Project at the University of Illinois at Chicago. We gathered data for this study through long‐term participant observation; that is, as we participated in the lives of one social network of Mexican immigrant families over the course of several years, we learned how both Spanish and English literacy are used in the various domains of their lives. We illustrate here the em…
Literacy in the community: A study of Mexicano families in Chicago
The study reported here is part of the Mexican‐origin Language and Literacy Project at the University of Illinois at Chicago. We gathered data for this study through long‐term participant observation; that is, as we participated in the lives of one social network of Mexican immigrant families over the course of several years, we learned how both Spanish and English literacy are used in the various domains of their lives. We illustrate here the em…
It is as if My Story Repeats Itself: Life, Language, and Literacy in a Chicago Comunidad
Literacy in the community: A study of Mexicano families in Chicago
The study reported here is part of the Mexican‐origin Language and Literacy Project at the University of Illinois at Chicago. We gathered data for this study through long‐term participant observation; that is, as we participated in the lives of one social network of Mexican immigrant families over the course of several years, we learned how both Spanish and English literacy are used in the various domains of their lives. We illustrate here the em…
It is as if My Story Repeats Itself: Life, Language, and Literacy in a Chicago Comunidad
Close to home: Oral and literate practices in a transnational Mexicano community
Portrays the language, literacy, and cultural resources of a social network of Mexicano adults living in a rural community in Mexico and Chicago's inner city. Provides a basis for understanding how researchers, policy makers, and educators can provide these adults and their children with a relevant education that effectively embraces their schooling and lived experience. Includes a variety of oral and written sample texts, including tape recordin…
Writing in Multicultural Settings
An Audiotaped Mental Health Evaluation Tool for Hispanic Immigrants With a Range of Literacy Levels
The literacy practices of transfronterizos in a multilingual world
This introduction provides the background for this special issue by first describing the US–Mexico border, a fascinating context in which to research issues related to Spanish–English biliteracy and multilingualism. We present main points in the prevailing discussion within the field of literacy studies about issues of multilingualism and local–global contexts of literacy. Drawing from literature on transnational literacy, we examine arguments ab…
Moving Forward: Sustaining Multilingual Literacies
This department explores how teachers can sustain students’ multilingual literacies and reimagine literacy learning across multiple contexts in conversation with researchers, practitioners, and communities
Out of the Valley: Transcultural Repositioning as a Rhetorical Practice in Ethnographic Research and Other Aspects of Everyday Life
In this chapter, the author wants to trace the development of the rhetorical practice in his own life as he moved from a highly segregated housing project in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of South Texas to a multiculturally rich university in Chicago where opportunities to engage in transcultural repositioning exploded. Based on his work investigating “the extremely complex transmutations of culture” taking place in Cuba, F. Ortiz proposed the conc…
Sociology (6 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Literacy (4 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (3 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Mathematics education (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Social science (2 works)