{"product_id":"translating-childhoods-immigrant-youth-language-and-culture-hardback-9780813545226","title":"Translating Childhoods; Immigrant Youth, Language, and Culture (Hardback) 9780813545226","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTranslating Childhoods\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eImmigrant Youth, Language, and Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMarjorie Faulstich Orellana (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813545226\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 18 May 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e224 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTranslating Childhoods\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Lucinda Pease-Alvarez (University of California, Santa Cruz) \u003cdiv\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Carol D. Lee (Northwestern University, author of Culture, Literacy and Learning) \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\"Translating Childhoods\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Marjorie Harness Goodwin (UCLA) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Orellana paints a powerful portrait of the complicated lives of America's immigrant youth.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Language Arts) \u003cdiv\u003e\"I highly recommend \u003ci\u003eTranslating Childhoods\u003c\/i\u003e for an array of courses in language and literacy. Despite the book's strong research base, it reads more like a novel.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e - Elaine Rubinstein-Avila (Anthropology and Education Quarterly) \u003cdiv\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e (Education Review) \u003cdiv\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e (Education Review) \u003cdiv\u003e\"I highly recommend \u003ci\u003eTranslating Childhoods\u003c\/i\u003e for an array of courses in language and literacy. Despite the book's strong research base, it reads more like a novel.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e - Elaine Rubinstein-Avila (Anthropology and Education Quarterly) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Orellana paints a powerful portrait of the complicated lives of America's immigrant youth.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Language Arts) \u003cdiv\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Translating Childhoods is a deeply insightful analysis of the daily 'work' of immigrant children and its implications for their development-a superb contribution to the field!\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e - Carola Sußrez-Orozco (author of Children of Immigration and Learning a New Land) \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\"Translating Childhoods\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Marjorie Harness Goodwin (UCLA) \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTranslating Childhoods\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Lucinda Pease-Alvarez (University of California, Santa Cruz) \u003cdiv\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Carol D. Lee (Northwestern University, author of Culture, Literacy and Learning)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThough the dynamics of immigrant family life has gained attention from scholars, little is known about the younger generation, often considered \"invisible.\" \u003ci\u003eTranslating Childhoods\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cp\u003eSkilled 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Translating Frames\u003cbr\u003eLandscapes of Childhood\u003cbr\u003e Home Work\u003cbr\u003e Public Para-Phrasing\u003cbr\u003e Transculturations\u003cbr\u003e Transformations\u003cbr\u003e Translating Childhoods\u003cbr\u003e Appendix A\u003cbr\u003e Appendix B\u003cbr\u003e Appendix C\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52559291220248,"sku":"9780813545226","price":85.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/translating-childhoods-immigrant-youth-language-and-culture-hardback-9780813545226","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}