Additive Schooling in Subtractive Times: Bilingual Education and Dominican Immigrant Youth in the Heights - Softcover

Bartlett, Lesley; Garcia, Ofelia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826517633 ISBN 13: 9780826517630

Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Documents the unusually successful efforts of one New York City high school to educate Dominican immigrant youth. Based on four and a half years of qualitative research, the book examines the schooling of teens in the Dominican Republic, the social and linguistic challenges the immigrant teens face in Washington Heights, and how Gregorio Luperon High School works with the community to respond to those challenges.

About this title

Review:

"Because it provides compelling counterstories of success and achievement among Latino youth, Additive Schooling in Subtractive Times is a welcome antidote to the typical stories of failure and despair among this population."
--Comparative Education Review

"Recommended."
--Choice

"An elegant and timely volume that weaves together sociocultural theory, political analysis, and the fine-grained details of dynamic bilingualism in a punishing era of 'English Only' and xenophobia to tell a story of possibility about the Luperon school community. . . . Additive Schooling in Subtractive Times shows us what is within reach, what is denied, and how we might create a different tomorrow with our newest Americans."
--Michelle Fine

About the Author:

Lesley Bartlett, co-director of the Center for Multiple Languages and Literacies at Teachers College, Columbia University, is the author of The Word and the World: The Cultural Politics of Literacy in Brazil and co-editor of Critical Approaches to Comparative Education. Ofelia Garcia is Professor of Urban Education and of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Among her recent books are Bilingual Education in the 21st Century: A Global Perspective and (with Jo Anne Kleifgen) Imagining Multilingual Schools; Language Loyalty, Continuity, and Change; and The Multilingual Apple.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0826517633
• ISBN 13: 9780826517630
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304