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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Olneck, Michael R. |
| Title, Analytic | What Have Immigrants Wanted from American Schools? What do They Want Now? Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Immigrants, Language, and American Schooling |
| Journal Title | American Journal of Education |
| Date of Publication | May 2009 |
| Volume ID | 115 |
| Issue ID | 3 |
| Location in Work | 379-406 |
| Abstract | Argues there has been a continuity between what immigrants historically have sought from American schools and what contemporary immigrants seek. In neither case have immigrants sought to utilize the schools to “reproduce” or to “preserve” cultures separate from the American mainstream. Rather, immigrants have consistently sought to utilize American schooling for purposes of incorporation into a system of American ethnic groups that exhibit aspects of acculturation and retention. Examines the fate of homeland languages [including German] in public schools during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; of the role of parochial schooling in the first third of the twentieth century; of the resistance of Mexican Americans of Crystal City, Texas, to “schooled ethnicity” during the 1970s and 1980s; of the attitudes of contemporary immigrants toward bilingual education; and, finally, of patterns of supplementary schooling among the children of immigrants. |
| Call Number | MKI P2018-11 |
| MKI Terms | Immigrants/ Language/ Schools/ Education/ Language loss/ Assimilation |