Latina Educators and School Discourse: Dealing With Tension on the Path to Success

摘要

There is a need to increase the diversity of the teaching pool; furthermore, Latinos who enter the teaching profession must themselves succeed in school. For this paper, we focused on the Latina teachers memories of schooling, and found that the teachers experienced significant conflict between expectations of school success and expectations at home. There was a common idea that education was a positive goal, yet we found tensions related to how education would take place and who would receive it, as well as to where, when, and for how long it would continue.