Download PDF by Sarah Gallo: Mi Padre: Mexican Immigrant Fathers and Their Children's

Mi Padre facilities at the promise of dad or mum involvement practices that construct upon the diversity of linguistic and sociocultural assets that Latin immigrant scholars and their households deliver to varsity. in the course of the reports of Mexican immigrant fathers and their little ones, this booklet illustrates the necessity for humanizing family members engagement. Gallo identifies the various methods those fathers give a contribution to their children’s schooling and the way educators can converse extra successfully with immigrant households. Mi Padre additionally exhibits the implications of deportation-based immigration rules on basic university schooling and provides innovations for helping scholars and their households within the lecture room. the writer stresses the significance of studying from and with households and provides sensible feedback for a way to construct relationships with all caregivers as a counterpractice to the one-size-fits-all education that many academics, scholars, and households event today.

“By highlighting fathers with a deep eager for the advantages and possibilities solid schooling can provide their youngsters, Sarah Gallo has documented how those males redefine what it capability to be engaged of their children’s education. lecturers, instructor educators, researchers, and others will all take advantage of this gorgeous and strong book.”
—Sonia Nieto, professor emerita, college of Massachusetts, Amherst

“A compelling and lucid instance of activist scholarship rooted in rigorous ethnographic inquiry . . . a must-read for pre- and inservice lecturers grappling with easy methods to paintings in harmony with households which are threatened through racism and exclusionary notions of citizenship.”
—Gerald Campano, college of Pennsylvania, writer of Partnering with Immigrant Communities