Examining Education for Latinas/os in Chicago: A CRT/LatCrit Approach.
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...Finally, critical theorists emphasize the historical, social, and political contexts in which oppression occurs (Davila & de Bradley, 2010; Hawkesworth, 2010), including recognizing variations across social settings and time (Hulko, 2009; Wilson, Okwu & Mills, 2011)....
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...Critical theories assume that all theories and research endeavors are political; the clearly-stated purpose of critical theories and research is to transform society, not only to understand it (Hulko, 2009; Davila & de Bradley, 2010; Huber, 2010; Ortiz & Jani, 2010)....
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...…focusing on oppressed groups, researchers focus on resilience and resistance to oppression, rather than only on the negative effects of oppression (Davila & de Bradley, 2010; Huber, 2010; Pyke, 2010): What strategies are members of subordinated groups using to empower themselves and to change…...
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...In this section, we describe selected key concepts of the many theories, paradigms, and frameworks developed to understand and transform social injustice related to difference, described as critical theories (e.g., see Hulko, 2009; Davila & de Bradley, 2010; Huber, 2010; Ortiz & Jani, 2010)....
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...CRT is used to understand educational issues such as school discipline and hierarchy, testing, tracking and curriculum (Delgado & Stefancic, 2001)....
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...In the current day, we find that a great majority of people deny that race matters (Winant, 2004 ; Delgado & Stefancic, 2001)....
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...Ladson-Billings (1995) discusses assessment within a CRT in education framework....
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...…bilingual and Spanish monolingual Latina/o students continue to be tested in US schools with tests that only measure their academic abilities in their second language and culture (Lipman, 2000), leading to the legitimization of deficiency that Ladson-Billings (1995) describes for African-Americans....
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...Students who resist the white supremacist master script curriculum (Ladson-Billings, 1995) are perceived as failures....
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...“For the critical race theorist, intelligence testing has been a movement to legitimize African American student deficiency under the guise of scientific rationalism” (Ladson-Billings,1995, p. 19)....
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...While some schools and school districts have made affirmative efforts to fully include the life experiences and histories of the students they serve, the vast majority of public schools serving Latinas/os have not done so (Valenzuela, 1999)....
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...Previous research conducted on Latina/o students tells us that students do not simply dropout, instead they are “pushed” out and/or not afforded opportunities to become connected and engaged in school (Flores-Gonzalez, 2002; Valenzuela, 1999)....
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...Furthermore, we will draw from the lens of LatCrit (Solorzano & Bernal, 2001) to situate our research within a paradigm that speaks to Latina/o school experiences in a very specific way....
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...“For too long, the histories, experiences, cultures, and languages of students of color have been devalued, misinterpreted, or omitted within formal educational settings” (Delgado-Bernal, 2002, p. 105)....
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...Emphasizing Latina/o students as ‘holders and creators of knowledge’ (Delgado-Bernal, 2002)....
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