A biographical perspective on chicano educational success |
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| Authors: | René Galindo Kathy Escamilla |
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| Institution: | (1) Language, Literacy and Culture Division of the School of Education at the University of Colorado at Denver, University of Colorado at Denver, Campus Box 106, P.O. Box 173364, 80217-3364 Denver, CO |
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| Abstract: | The lack of educational success among Latinos has been the focus of much research concerned with identifying factors contributing
to school failure. However, some Latinos do achieve educational success and receive college degrees. Their lives can serve
as case studies of minority educational success. This study used autobiographical and interview data to construct the life
histories of two Chicanos in order to examine their interpretations of their educational experiences and the sociocultural
factors which they identified as influencing those experiences. An additional purpose was to provide detailed biographical
information which is currently not available on educationally successful Chicanos. A biographical perspective provides a counterbalance
to perceptions of the role of sociocultural factors such as ethnicity in the education of minorities which view them as static
or unproblematic. When examined within the contexts of lives that undergo transitions across biographical time, the influence
of sociocultural factors such as ethnicity is shown to vary and to require an examination of their impact that shifts across
educational careers.
His research interests include examining relatiponships between literacy, cullure, and socialization in written and oral genres,
including the life histories of Chicano educators. He holds a Ph.D. in language and literacy from The Ohio State University
Her research and teaching interests focus on bilingual education in Spanish and English. She holds a Ph.D. in curriculum and
the study of schooling from UCLA. |
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