1. Olsen's study is a historical anthropological study of ELL in our classrooms. It focuses on a California high school. She takes into account how identity is largely affected by how we view and categorize students by their race, class, language, etc.
2. Her theoretical background is the Head of California tomorrow. She attempts to combine racial and economic theories to create a new social theory. Her definition of schooling focuses on the related issues of language, race, culture, and national identity
3. The research method Olsen utilizes is the ethnic graphic approach. This observes culture and participating/interviewing the participants.
4. The participants of the research were 15 faculty/administration members at Madison High, 7 at the Newcomer School (ESL Program), 47 students, and 5 teachers.
5. The central issues/research questions include:
-How did they understand "America?" What does it mean to be "American?"
-What borders and boundaries did they create or detect in social relations? What language did they use to articulate and create those borders and boundaries?
-How were the crossings, the borderlands and terrain in between languages, cultures, and national identities experienced, shared, contested?
-How did they experience and view their encounters with each other across languages, cultures, and national identies?
-What was it like for those students and teachers who felt themselves involved in forging new terrains of language, culture, racial, and national identity?
-Why were they in school, and how did they experience school? What relationship did school have to the rest of their lives?
6. Olsen kept date through journals, categorizing three different personalities of herself which were the storyteller, the anthropologist, and the advocate. She also utilized census and school reports.
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The researcher’s roles were to be the observer. She viewed participants in the school and in the community. She wanted to see how students perceived their own education and how this was constructed. 8. The demographics were Demographics: 32.8% white, 26.1% Hispanic, 13.5% African-American, 13.3% Asian, 11.1% Filipino, 2.4% Pacific Islander, and less than 1% Native-American.
The researcher’s roles were to be the observer. She viewed participants in the school and in the community. She wanted to see how students perceived their own education and how this was constructed. 8. The demographics were Demographics: 32.8% white, 26.1% Hispanic, 13.5% African-American, 13.3% Asian, 11.1% Filipino, 2.4% Pacific Islander, and less than 1% Native-American.
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