Contemporary Bilingual Life at a Canadian High School
Choices, Risks, Tensions, and Dilemmas
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2581322 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tara Goldstein (0000-0003-4720-5778, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 247 |
| Publication date | 2003-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0407 • E-ISSN: 1939-8573 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3108468 |
| OpenAlex | W2061990580 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 6 |
This article reports on a four-year critical ethnographic study (1996-2000) that investigated how immigrant high school students who were born in Hong Kong used Cantonese as well as English to achieve academic and social success in a Canadian school where English was the language of instruction. Working with Pierre Bourdieu's notions of capital, social fields, and markets and Angela Valenzuela's notion of peer social capital, the author argues that immigrant students found a meaningful way to acquire the cultural capital of the dominant society (i.e., good grades, educational credentials, entree into higher education, and access to middle-class and upper middle-class professions) by using ethnic-sociolinguistic resources and channels. However, since these resources and channels were not consistently legitimated by the school, their use created different kinds of dilemmas and tensions for the students and teachers that needed to be negotiated in creative ways
Capital (architecture) · Class (philosophy) · Cultural capital · Epistemology · Ethnic group · Ethnography · Immigration · Middle class · Pedagogy · Political science · Social capital · Social class · Social mobility · Social reproduction · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of Education · Working class · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Law · Multilingual Education and Policy · Social and Cultural Dynamics
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Spanish Education and Chinese Immigrants in a New Multicultural Context
Do relational and structural characteristics of negative school environments independently predict immigrant adolescents’ academic achievement
The academic achievement of socioeconomically disadvantaged immigrant adolescents
‘How does it look and feel to be plurilingual?’
Beyond the Language Barrier
Chinese Migrants' Class Mobility in Hong Kong
No “Bad Friends”? Immigrant-Origin Adolescents’ Peer Social Capital Mobilization in the U.S. and Switzerland
The Dynamics of Ethnic Name Maintenance and Change
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2026 (21) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |