In an era of crescent cultural globalization, cultures originally from south of the U.S. border are fighting to stay alive inside the classrooms of compulsory educational institutions. Day after day students in these settings are suffering the effects of a cultural McDonalization . These effects pollute their skills as well as their vernacular voices. Social sciences are created neglecting what students and parents bring in the form of a primeval culture. Hence, history is explained in an archaic context, nation-state model, perhaps valid for the nineteenth century but entirely demode for the...

General approaches to multiculturalism run the risk of overlooking an increasingly diverse student population that deserves special consideration and attention: students from immigrant backgrounds whose families toil the fields in order to provide better educational opportunities for their children. This book's purpose is to guide educators to think deeply about their roles and responsibilities in the education of children of farmworker families in our nation's schools. Readers will view their classrooms, schools, districts, and the migrant programs they lead in a broad and inclusive manner...

General approaches to multiculturalism run the risk of overlooking an increasingly diverse student population that deserves special consideration and attention: students from immigrant backgrounds whose families toil the fields in order to provide better educational opportunities for their children. This book's purpose is to guide educators to think deeply about their roles and responsibilities in the education of children of farmworker families in our nation's schools. Readers will view their classrooms, schools, districts, and the migrant programs they lead in a broad and inclusive manner...