Keeping Up with the (Zh)oneses
Language Immersion and School Choice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9730101 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Edward L Watson (0000-0001-7970-8199, University of California Irvine, CA, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 445-469 |
| Publication date | 2022-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Education and Urban Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-1245 • E-ISSN: 1552-3535 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00131245211027364 |
| OpenAlex | W3174780649 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 59 |
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 analysis relies on a mixed-method approach using survey data ( N = 500) to highlight motivations of parents without an ethnic background related to the language, supplemented with 15 semi-structured interviews with Black and White parents of children enrolled in schools with Mandarin Immersion Programs. The study finds that parents frame the benefits of an educational investment differently by race. White parents take a pragmatic stance of greater future returns while Black parents hope immersion will help construct a stronger self-identity. These findings show the influence a burgeoning global society has on parental educational choices
Chinese americans · Ethnic group · French immersion · Immersion (mathematics · Linguistics · Mandarin Chinese · Pedagogy · Popularity · Sociology · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Multilingual Education and Policy · Parental Involvement in Education · Psychology · Social Psychology
Bilingualism in Development
Black American Students in An Affluent Suburb
Buying Homes, Buying Schools
Bilingualism
Two Strikes
Exploring Korean dual language immersion programs in the United States
Academic achievement of students in dual language immersion
Achievement in predominantly low SES/Hispanic dual language schools
Inequality in the Promised Land
Who Is White
Racelessness as a Factor in Black Students' School Success
Choosing Homes, Choosing Schools
Whose culture has capital? A critical race theory discussion of community cultural wealth
Do magnet and charter schools exacerbate or ameliorate inequality
Structural racism as the fundamental cause of the academic achievement gap
Two dimensions of parental involvement
Vietnamese Parent Attitudes Toward Bilingual Education
Parents’ Attitudes Toward Heritage Language Maintenance for Their Children and Their Efforts to Help Their Children Maintain the Heritage Language
Language attitudes and heritage language maintenance among Chinese immigrant families in the USA
The Korean Language in America
Does Selective Migration Matter? Explaining Ethnic Disparities in Educational Attainment among Immigrants' Children
Constructing an Authentic Self
School Choice Policies and Racial Segregation
The Ironies of School Choice
I Heard It on the Grapevine’
Being strategic, being watchful, being determined
Black students' school success
Latino Parents’ Choice of Magnet School
Color Conscious, Cultural Blindness
There Is No “Race” in the Schoolyard
But that's just good teaching! The case for culturally relevant pedagogy
Designing and Conducting Mixed Methods Research
A socially contextualized model of African American identity
Languages, cultural capital and school choice
Mixed Methods Research
Just what is critical race theory and what's it doing in a nice field like education
A threat in the air
When White Is Just Alright
Beyond Desegregation
If Only We Knew Then What We Know Now
Mapping Educational Inequality
School Choice, Charter Schools, and White Flight
Private Choices, Public Consequences
School Quality and the Vulnerability of the Black Middle Class
They Want the Spanish but They Don't Want the Mexicans
"Oil and Water"? Latino-white Relations and Symbolic Integration in a Changing California
Beyond the Family
School choice and racial segregation in US schools
Everyday Politics of School Choice in the Black Community
Multiple Group Threat and Malleable White Attitudes Towards Academic Merit
African American School Choice and the Current Race Politics of Charter Schooling
The Success Frame and Achievement Paradox
| Citations per year | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |