Pledging Allegiance: Learning Nationalism at the El Paso-Juarez Border

by Rippberger Susa, Kathleen Staudt, Susa Rippberger, et al.

Offering a critical ethnography of education at the U.S.-Mexico border, Pledging Allegiance explores how public schools teach cultural and national values explicitly and implicitly. Susan J. Rippberger and Kathleen A. Staudt illuminate the complex overlays of culture and learning through the eyes of students, teachers, and administrators in U.S. and Mexican schools. This book examines nationalism and civic ritual, bilingualism, technology, and classroom...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415934907
• ISBN13: 9780415934909
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"