The Shoulders We Stand on
A History of Bilingual Education in New Mexico

Rebecca Blum Martínez (Edited by), Mary Jean Habermann López (Edited by)

9780826360182

Paperback / softback, published 30 November 2022

336 pages
22.8 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.363 kg

Winner of the 2021 Southwest Book Award from the Border Regional Library Association

The Shoulders We Stand On traces the complex history of bilingual education in New Mexico, covering Spanish, Diné, and Pueblo languages. The book focuses on the formal establishment of bilingual education infrastructure and looks at the range of contemporary challenges facing the educational environment today. The book's contributors highlight particular actions, initiatives, and people that have made significant impacts on bilingual education in New Mexico, and they place New Mexico's experience in context with other states' responses to bilingual education. The book also includes an excellent timeline of bilingual education in the state. The Shoulders We Stand On is the first book to delve into the history of bilingual education in New Mexico and to present New Mexico's leaders, families, and educators who have pioneered program development, legislation, policy, evaluation, curriculum development, and teacher preparation in the field of bilingual multicultural education at state and national levels. Historians of education, educators, and educators in training will want to consider this as required reading.

• Introduction-Rebecca Blum Martí
  nez and Mary Jean Habermann Ló
  pez
• Part One. Indigenous New Mexico: The Critical Role of Language in a Way of Life
• Chapter One. The Gift of Language from One Pueblo Perspective-Regis Pecos
• Chapter Two. From English-Only Boarding School Policies to Total Navajo Immersion Methodologies: A Sociocultural Historical Perspective of Navajo Bilingual Education-Vincent Werito
• Chapter Three: Bilingual Education in Pueblo Country-Christine P. Sims
• Part Two. Experimentation, Policies, and Legislation
• Chapter Four. Promise and Frustration: The History of Spanish-Language Bilingual Education in New Mexico, 1846-1970-Phillip (Felipe) B. Gonzales
• Chapter Five. The Pecos Project-Mary Jean Habermann Ló
  pez
• Chapter Six. Initial Policies, Legislation, and Decisions-Rebecca Blum Martí
  nez
• Chapter Seven. Serna v. Portales, 1974: Changing the Music and Asserting Language Rights for New Mexico'
  s Children-Mia Angé
  lica Sosa-Provencio and Rebecca Sá
  nchez
• Chapter Eight. New Mexico'
  s Role in Federal Policies-Rebecca Blum Martí
  nez and Mary Jean Habermann Ló
  pez
• Part Three. Innovations, Preparation, and Leaders
• Chapter Nine. Innovations in Bilingual Education in New Mexico-Beverly Argus-Calvo, Rebecca Blum Martí
  nez, and Mary Jean Habermann Ló
  pez
• Chapter Ten. Assessing the Spanish Language Proficiency of Bilingual Teachers-Thomasina Pagá
  n Hannum and Loretta C. Salazar
• Chapter Eleven. Development of Instructional Materials for Bilingual Education Programs-Julia Rosa Ló
  pez-Emslie
• Chapter Twelve. The State Bilingual Advisory Committee -Mary Jean Habermann Ló
  pez
• Chapter Thirteen. Spanish-Speaking and Indigenous Leaders in New Mexico Who Made Successful Innovations in Bilingual Education: A Chapter in Two Parts-Marí
  a Luisa Gonzá
  lez and Rebecca Blum Martí
  nez
• Timeline: Early Experimentation in ESL and Bilingual Education to the Richardson Administration
• Contributors
• Index