Advancing Educational Equity for Students of Mexican Descent: Creating an Asset-based Bicultural Continuum Model

This book challenges the interpretation of the achievement gap for Mexican-American students and highlights asset-based approaches that can promote their academic success. It presents the Asset-Based Bicultural Continuum Model (ABC) and showcases its applications in various family, school, and community-based initiatives. The ABC model leverages community and cultural wealth to increase educational opportunities for Latino students, offering place-based strategies tailored to their strengths. The book contributes to understanding the social ecology of Latinx students' experiences and provides a valuable resource for researchers and academics in education, multicultural education, urban education, and bilingual education.

Format: Hardback
Length: 216 pages
Publication date: 25 April 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Drawing on extensive participatory action research conducted with students, parents, families, and school staff in a Southwest community in the United States, this comprehensive volume challenges the prevailing interpretation of the achievement gap for students of Mexican descent within the American education system. It sheds light on asset-based approaches that have the potential to foster academic success for Latino students.

By presenting the Asset-Based Bicultural Continuum Model (ABC) and showcasing its applications in diverse family, school, and community-based initiatives, this volume showcases how community and cultural wealth can be harnessed to enhance educational opportunities for Latino students. The ABC model introduces innovative strategies that capitalize on the bicultural and linguistic assets inherent in local communities, offering place-based strategies driven by communities themselves to tailor interventions to students' strengths.

This text makes a substantial contribution to understanding the social ecology of Latinx students' experiences, providing a fresh perspective for effective and evidence-based academic and health programs across the United States. It will serve as a valuable resource for researchers and academics with interests in the sociology of education, multicultural education, urban education, and bilingual education. Particularly, those focused on Hispanic and Latino studies will find this book of great interest.

Weight: 453g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367406622