TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marianne Exum Lopez
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - When Discourses Collide
T2  - An Ethnography of Migrant Children at Home and in School
N2  - When Discourses Collide examines the discourse systems at work and play for three fifth grade migrant boys during an apple harvest season in south central Pennsylvania. The study is a critical ethnography that explores the lives of these children as they interacted in their families, in their friendships, with their teachers, and with their classmates. The book has a certain approachability that allows the reader to enter the homes of these children and know their families. It then moves into the classroom and seeks to address the issue of how dominant mainstream discourses overpower the discourses of marginalized children. Through countless examples, the author reveals discourse «collisions» that help to explain why schooling was such a frustrating experience for these boys, whose home language and home culture did not reflect that of the mainstream.
KW  - Discourse system, Critical ethnography, Mainstream discourse, Marginalization, Children lifestyle
LA  - English
ER  -