Van Manen speaks of the necessity of connecting research to the everyday world of the children we seek to educate. Out of my research, I began to see connections that could benefit both teachers and parents. First, it appeared to me that Latino children have often been planted in fertile ground for a cooperative style of learning.
They emerge from a culture that has blanketed them with supportive care and that does not emphasize competition and independence. A familiarity with Latino child-rearing practices may positively increase a teacher's understanding of how her students' family expectations and learning styles might blend with educational efforts in the classroom.
Second, I believe that parental involvement in preschool may increase Latino parents' confidence in actively participating in their children's school experiences. This is not meant to emphasize the "deficits" of such families and dwell on weaknesses, but rather to realize differences and help develop areas that will make school success more attainable.
Van Manen laments the loss of "common sense, the sense we have in common, the basic assumptions and values.
Here lies a strength still apparent in many Latino families I met: The "layering" from one generation's child-rearing practices merges with the next generation, so that families retain values even in the midst of great cultural adjustments. I would like to see schools encourage parental involvement that realizes and celebrates the nurturance of the extended Latino family while helping the parents to explore new educational and academic ground.
Latino parents can thus integrate new worlds into their child-rearing practices and incorporate new ideas about education into their family networks, which are already strong in integrative and collaborative skills. A goal of bien educado has much merit, and I believe it can cross into the academic world as teachers and parents move closer to one another's experiences and expectations. For children like Maribel and Alejandro who are from Latino families, many teachers have had negative perceptions of what was or wasn't happening in their homes.
Teachers have often assumed that these children's parents are not interested in school. But my studies have given me images of caring parents whose styles differed from the mainstream conception, yet were equally valid.
My observations gave me a grasp on the concept of bien educado. Integral to gaining understanding from close observations is the activity of writing about them. I would like to encourage teachers to write portraits of their students—and to write responsively and reflectively. We must share this writing—whether at a school level, the district level, or through professional publications.
Teachers—and students—need to read immigrant stories, particularly those describing educational experiences. For example, read Sandra Cisneros's childhood vignettes and glimpses of classroom life, Carmen Tafolla's poetry on classroom memories, and Luis Rodriguez's recounting of misplaced Latino students in special education classrooms and the eventual drift toward gangs. Such works can provide powerful links between the life worlds and school worlds of diverse students.
In the case of young Maribel, the classroom teacher learned to gradually introduce new kinds of toys to her and to lend such toys, along with books, for home use. The teacher also learned not to view Senora Chavez's rare communication with school in a negative light but to realize that Maribel's mother would warmly welcome school initiatives. In Alejandro's case, some of his teachers and tutors including myself learned a great deal about acknowledging diverse parents' strengths even when they are outside the academic realm.
Alejandro's parents were eager to share their stories and their strengths. Sadly, Alejandro's schools did not pursue this information. For Alejandro, the huge urban public high school he attended the year after my study proved to be overwhelmed with issues of security from gang violence and operated on a deficit view of minority students.
Unfortunately, it seemed too late to undo the years of misconceptions about urban students and families like Alejandro's. My goal is to help teachers avoid losing more Maribels and Alejandros to the dropout rate and to encourage appreciation and integration of their families in educational settings.
Through listening, observing, and reflecting, I believe we can cross borders and attend to the new voices of our diverse students and their parents. Anzaldua, G. Carger, C. New York: Teachers College Press. Cisneros, S. The House on Mango Street. New York: Vintage Books. Husserl, E.
The Idea of Phenomenology. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff. Perez-Miller, A. Unpublished doctoral diss. Rodriguez, L. Willimatic, Conn. Tafolla, C. Santa Monica, Calif. Van Manen, M. Chris Liska Carger has been a contributor to Educational Leadership. Attending to New Voices. Chris Liska Carger. Learn More. Want to add your own highlights and notes for this article to access later? Become a member today. Related Articles View all. School Culture.
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