Michael Gottfried

Gilberto Conchas

This volume highlights issues of power, inequality, and resistance for Asian, African American, and Latino/a students in distinct U.S. and international contexts. Through a collection of case studies it links universal issues relating to inequality in education, such as Asian, Latino, and African American males in the inner-city neighborhoods, Latina teachers and single mothers in California, undocumented youth from Mexico and El Salvador, immigrant Morrocan youth in Spain, and immigrant Afro-Caribbean and Indian teenagers in New York and in London. The volume explores the processes that keep students thriving academically and socially, and outlines the patterns that exist among individuals—students, teachers, parents—to resist the hegemony of the dominant class and school failure. With emphasis on racial formation theory, this volume fundamentally argues that education, despite inequality, remains the best hope of achieving the American dream.

Case Studies on Racial Disparity and Opportunity in Education

Inequality, Power and School Success

Gilberto Q. Conchas

Briana M. Hinga

Leticia Oseguera

Educational policies explicitly implemented in order to reduce educational gaps and promote access and success for disenfranchised youth can backfire—and often have the unintended result of widening those gaps. In this interdisciplinary collection of case studies, contributors examine cases of policy backfire, when policies don’t work, have unintended consequences, and when policies help. Although policy reform is thought of as an effective way to improve schooling structures and to diminish the achievement gap, many such attempts to reform the system do not adequately address the legacy of unequal policies and the historic and pervasive inequalities that persist in schools. Exploring the roots of school inequality and examining often-ignored negative policy outcomes, contributors illuminate the causes and consequences of poor policymaking decisions and demonstrate how policies can backfire, fail, or have unintended success.

Case Studies on the Limitations and Possibilities of Educational Innovation

Educational Policy Goes to School

Thomas Ryckman

Paul Mattick

Z. Harris

Anne Daladier

DOES DISCOURSE HAVE A 'STRUCTURE'? HARRIS'S REVOLUTION IN LINGUISTICS As a freshman back in 1947 I discovered that within the various academic divisions and subdivisions of the University of Pennsylvania there existed a something (it was not a Department, but a piece of the Anthropology Department) called 'Linguistic Analysis'. I was an untalented but enthusiastic student of Greek and a slightly more talented student of German, as well as the son of a translator, so the idea of 'Linguistic Analysis' attracted me, sight unseen, and I signed up for a course. It turned out that 'Linguistic Analysis' was essentially a graduate program - I and another undergraduate called Noam Chomsky were the only two undergraduates who took courses in Linguistic Analysis - and also that it was essentially a one-man show: a professor named Zellig Harris taught all the courses with the aid of graduate Teaching Fellows (and possibly - I am not sure - one Assistant Professor). The technicalities of Linguistic Analysis were formidable, and I never did master them all. But the powerful intellect and personality of Zellig Harris drew me like a lodestone, and, although I majored in Philosophy, I took every course there was to take in Linguistic Analysis from then until my gradua tion. What 'Linguistics' was like before Zellig Harris is something not many people care to remember today.

Analysis of an Immunology Sublanguage

The Form of Information in Science

Harald Pauli

Andrea Lamprecht

Sophie Niessner

Sabine Rumpf

Manuela Winkler

Klaus Steinbauer

Georg Grabherr

GLORIA, acrónimo de Global Observation Research Initiative in Alpine Environments, es decir, la Iniciativa para la Investigación y el Seguimiento Global de los Ambientes Alpinos, es un proyecto internacional de observación a largo plazo para evaluar los impactos del cambio climático sobre la biodiversidad de la alta montaña del planeta. Esta es la quinta versión del manual de campo de GLORIA, que describe con detalle el muestreo básico o estándar del Estudio de las cimas GLORIA, con las pautas para la selección de sitio, instalación de parcelas y recopilación de datos. Además, incluye métodos de las actividades opcionales complementarias y una descripción de otras actividades adicionales que están en marcha o se han iniciado recientemente en el marco de GLORIA.

Aproximación al estudio de las cimas. Métodos básico, complementarios y adicionales. 5ª edición

Manual para el trabajo de campo del proyecto GLORIA

Michael Gottfried

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