Translating Childhoods: Immigrant Youth, Language, and Culture (Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies) - Softcover

Orellana, Marjorie Faulstich

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813545234 ISBN 13: 9780813545233

Verlag: Rutgers University Press, 2009

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Book by Marjorie Faulstich Orellana

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"This is one of the most important works on learning and development among immigrant children in the last decade, Orellana integrates a cognitive and developmental focus with deeply personal portraits that expand fundamentally our understanding of what counts as generative knowledge for academic learning." - Carol D. Lee, Northwestern University, author of Culture, Literacy, and Learning: Taking Bloom in the Midst of the Whirlwind "Translating Childhoods should be required reading for educators and future teachers. It provides a refreshing and important view of children as active contributors to communities and society." - Lucinda Pease-Alvarez, University of California. Santa Cruz"

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Though the dynamics of immigrant family life has gained attention from scholars, little is known about the younger generation, often considered "invisible." Translating Childhoods, a unique contribution to the study of immigrant youth, brings children to the forefront by exploring the "work" they perform as language and culture brokers, and the impact of this largely unseen contribution.

Skilled in two vernaculars, children shoulder basic and more complicated verbal exchanges for non-English speaking adults. Readers hear, through children's own words, what it means be "in the middle" or the "keys to communication" that adults otherwise would lack. Drawing from ethnographic data and research in three immigrant communities, Marjorie Faulstich Orellana's study expands the definition of child labor by assessing children's roles as translators as part of a cost equation in an era of global restructuring and considers how sociocultural learning and development is shaped as a result of children's contributions as translators.

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• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0813545234
• ISBN 13: 9780813545233
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 200