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Name: Pedagogy and the Struggle for Voice : Issues of. Walsh<|
Brand: Catherine Walsh

Catherine Walsh

Pedagogy and the Struggle for VoiceIssues of Language, Power, and Schooling for Puerto Ricans\nAuthor(s): Catherine Walsh\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Praeger Publishers Inc\nISBN-13: 9780897892353, 978-0897892353\nSynopsis\nHow often are the perspectives of Puerto Rican students recognized, listened to, and taken into account? Not very often, according to this incisive study which deals with the struggles that these students confront in [url] schools. As active participants in the shifting balances of power, in the dialectic of language, and in the battle over whose knowledge, experience, and voice are recognized and accepted, Puerto Rican students are uniquely aware of the language and power relation. Their efforts at trying to make sense out of and fashion a voice from the multiple and often contradictory realities that comprise their daily existence, however, are misinterpreted or ignored. This book challenges generally accepte.