TY - BOOK ID - 77865172 TI - Culturally contested pedagogy : battles of literacy and schooling between mainstream teachers and Asian immigrant parents PY - 2006 SN - 0791482545 1423747895 9781423747895 0791465934 9780791465936 0791465942 9780791465943 9780791482544 PB - Albany : State University of New York Press, DB - UniCat KW - Parent-teacher relationships KW - Literacy KW - Children of immigrants KW - Asians KW - Asian Americans KW - Parent and teacher KW - Parents and teachers KW - Teacher and parent KW - Teacher-parent relationships KW - Teachers and parents KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Home and school KW - Illiteracy KW - Education KW - General education KW - First generation children KW - Immigrants' children KW - Second generation children KW - Immigrants KW - Orientals KW - Ethnology KW - Social aspects KW - Education. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77865172 AB - Winner of the 2006 Edward Fry Book Award presented by the National Reading ConferenceThe voices of teachers, parents, and students create a compelling ethnographic study that examines the debate between traditional and progressive pedagogies in literacy education and the mismatch of cross-cultural discourses between mainstream schools and Asian families. This book focuses on a Vancouver suburb where the Chinese population has surpassed the white community numerically and socioeconomically, but not politically, and where the author uncovers disturbing cultural conflicts, educational dissensions, and "silent" power struggles between school and home. What Guofang Li reveals illustrates the challenges of teaching and learning in an increasingly complex educational landscape in which literacy, culture, race, and social class intertwine. Advocating for a greater cultural understanding of minority beliefs in literacy education and a more critical examination of mainstream instructional practices, Li offers a new theoretical framework and critical recommendations for teachers, schools, and parents. ER -