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Translating Childhoods Marjorie Faulstich Orellana

Translating Childhoods By Marjorie Faulstich Orellana

Translating Childhoods by Marjorie Faulstich Orellana

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Drawing from ethnographic data and research in immigrant communities, this study provides the definition of child labor by assessing children's roles as translators as part of a cost equation in an era of global restructuring and considers how sociocultural learning and development is shaped as a result of children's contributions as translators.

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Translating Childhoods: Immigrant Youth, Language, and Culture by Marjorie Faulstich Orellana

Though the dynamics of immigrant family life has gained attention from scholars, little is known about the younger generation, often considered "invisible." Translating Childhoods, a unique contribution to the study of immigrant youth, brings children to the forefront by exploring the "work" they perform as language and culture brokers, and the impact of this largely unseen contribution.

Skilled in two vernaculars, children shoulder basic and more complicated verbal exchanges for non-English speaking adults. Readers hear, through children's own words, what it means be "in the middle" or the "keys to communication" that adults otherwise would lack. Drawing from ethnographic data and research in three immigrant communities, Marjorie Faulstich Orellana's study expands the definition of child labor by assessing children's roles as translators as part of a cost equation in an era of global restructuring and considers how sociocultural learning and development is shaped as a result of children's contributions as translators.

Translating Childhoods Reviews

"Translating Childhoods should be required reading for educators and future teachers. It provides a refreshing and important view of children as active contributors to communities and society." -- Lucinda Pease-Alvarez * University of California, Santa Cruz *
"This is one of the most important works on learning and development among immigrant children in the last decade. Orellana integrates a cognitive and developmental focus with deeply personal portraits that expand fundamentally our understanding of what counts as generative knowledge for academic learning." -- Carol D. Lee * Northwestern University, author of Culture, Literacy and Learning *
"Translating Childhoods, an important and pathbreaking contribution to the new sociology of childhood, provides lucid analysis and vivid ethnographic portraits of children as powerful social actors engaged in the invisible work of language brokering at home, in schools and in public spaces across an array of institutional domains where their skills matter." -- Marjorie Harness Goodwin * UCLA *
"Orellana paints a powerful portrait of the complicated lives of America's immigrant youth." * Language Arts *
"Ihighly recommend Translating Childhoods for an array of courses in language and literacy. Despite the book's strong research base, it reads more like a novel."
-- Elaine Rubinstein-Avila * Anthropology and Education Quarterly *
"Orellana tracks immigrant children in Los Angeles, Chicago, and a Chicago suburb to explore the work children do translating for others. From the author's introspection, one once more appreciates that immigrant children are not the burden they are often portrayed."
* Education Review *
"Orellana tracks immigrant children in Los Angeles, Chicago, and a Chicago suburb to explore the work children do translating for others. From the author's introspection, one once more appreciates that immigrant children are not the burden they are often portrayed."
* Education Review *
"Ihighly recommend Translating Childhoods for an array of courses in language and literacy. Despite the book's strong research base, it reads more like a novel."
-- Elaine Rubinstein-Avila * Anthropology and Education Quarterly *
"Orellana paints a powerful portrait of the complicated lives of America's immigrant youth." * Language Arts *
"Translating Childhoods is a deeply insightful analysis of the daily 'work' of immigrant children and its implications for their developmenta superb contribution to the field!" -- Carola Surez-Orozco * author of Children of Immigration and Learning a New Land *
"Translating Childhoods, an important and pathbreaking contribution to the new sociology of childhood, provides lucid analysis and vivid ethnographic portraits of children as powerful social actors engaged in the invisible work of language brokering at home, in schools and in public spaces across an array of institutional domains where their skills matter." -- Marjorie Harness Goodwin * UCLA *
"Translating Childhoods should be required reading for educators and future teachers. It provides a refreshing and important view of children as active contributors to communities and society." -- Lucinda Pease-Alvarez * University of California, Santa Cruz *
"This is one of the most important works on learning and development among immigrant children in the last decade. Orellana integrates a cognitive and developmental focus with deeply personal portraits that expand fundamentally our understanding of what counts as generative knowledge for academic learning." -- Carol D. Lee * Northwestern University, author of Culture, Literacy and Learning *

About Marjorie Faulstich Orellana

Marjorie Faulstich Orellana is an associate professor in the Graduate School of Education and Information Sciences at UCLA.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Translating Frames
Landscapes of Childhood
Home Work
Public Para-Phrasing
Transculturations
Transformations
Translating Childhoods
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Additional information

NPB9780813545226
9780813545226
0813545226
Translating Childhoods: Immigrant Youth, Language, and Culture by Marjorie Faulstich Orellana
Marjorie Faulstich Orellana
Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
New
Hardback
Rutgers University Press
2009-05-18
224
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