Waking the Sleeping Giant
Engaging and Capitalizing on the Sociocultural Strengths of the Latino Community
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12751609 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jorge P Osterling (George Mason University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 59-88 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bilingual Research Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1523-5882 • E-ISSN: 1523-5890 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15235882.2001.10162785 |
| OpenAlex | W2055730685 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 27 |
Putting together the language minority community's initiatives and talents into educational programs awakens the community's “sleeping giant” and untaps powerful resources for our school systems. Adopting a sociocultural perspective and using Arlington's Empowering Families Through Literacy as a case, this article analyzes an example of an educational project designed and implemented in an increasingly diverse, multicultural, and multilingual community by a group of grassroots organizations. Implementing lessons learned from research, theory, and standards for an effective pedagogy, and recognizing and building upon the students' first language and culture, this study exemplifies the conscious efforts of immigrant communities to join efforts to academically succeed in America
Grassroots · Immigration · Literacy · Multicultural education · Multiculturalism · Pedagogy · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Public relations · Sociocultural evolution · Sociocultural perspective · Sociology · Anthropology · Education Systems and Policy · Multilingual Education and Policy · Parental Involvement in Education
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Family Literacy
Illiterate Mothers and Their Daughters
Latino parents in dual language immersion programs
Harvesting hope and solidarity
Measuring up
The Role of Language Ideologies in Community Literacy Spaces
Effects of trauma and the refugee experience on psychological assessment processes and interpretation
Latino immigrant parents and schools
Olé!” Locating capital and community cultural wealth within multicultural children’s literature
All for Our Children
Creating Taxonomies to Improve School–Home Connections With Families of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners
Understanding Latinx Civic Engagement in a New Immigrant Gateway
Bilingual and ESL classrooms
The dreamkeepers
Over the ivy walls
Ethnic labels, Latino lives
Literacy
Vygotsky and Education
Interdependence of first- and second-language proficiency in bilingual children
Empowering Minority Students
Ways with Words
Latin Journey
Ethnic Community Mother Tongue Schools in the U.S.A
Understanding Latino Families
A Synthesis of Studies Examining Long-Term Language Minority Student Data on Academic Achievement
How Long? A Synthesis of Research on Academic Achievement in a Second Language
Age and Rate of Acquisition of Second Language for Academic Purposes
Bilingual Classroom Studies and Community Analysis
Latinos Unidos
Funds of knowledge for teaching
But that's just good teaching! The case for culturally relevant pedagogy
The Black-White Test Score Gap
Toward a Theory of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
The Cold War American West, 1945-1989
Fighting to Learn
| Citations per year | 0.57 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2003 - 2025 (23) |
| Highly cited | No |