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Immigration and Education in North Carolina pp 195–220Cite as

Countering Silence and Reconstructing Identities in a Spanish/English Two-Way Immersion Program

Latina Mothers’ Pedagogies in El Nuevo Sur

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Within the context of relatively new Latina/o settlement in North Carolina and a two-way immersion dual language program, this qualitative study analyzes the role of Latina mothers’ in countering dominant discourses that rendered Latina/o childrearing practices as a hindrance to their children’s classroom participation and bilingual competence.

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  1. Claudia G. Cervantes-Soon
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  1. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

    Xue Lan Rong

  2. University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA

    Jeremy Hilburn

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Cervantes-Soon, C.G., Turner, A.M. (2016). Countering Silence and Reconstructing Identities in a Spanish/English Two-Way Immersion Program. In: Rong, X.L., Hilburn, J. (eds) Immigration and Education in North Carolina. Breakthroughs in the Sociology of Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-809-9_9

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