Current Developments: Publications and Presentations

Current Developments
Introduction
Major Programmatic Themes
Project Summaries for 1997
Publications and Presentations
Network Trainees

Publications and Presentations
Publications by Network Members:
Garcia Coll, C., Thorne, B., Cooper, C., Eccles, J., Scott-Jones, D. & Nakashima. C. "Beyond social categories: Race, ethnicity, social class, gender, and research on child development." Submitted for journal publication.
MacGillivray, L. & Orellana, M.F., "La cara es como su cara: Socially constructed categories in literacy research." Submitted for journal publication.
Orellana, M. F. & Thorne, B., "Seasons of childhood in a year-round school community." Submitted for journal publication.
Orellana, M.F., and Hernández, A. "Talking the walk: Children reading urban environmental print." Submitted for journal publication.
Orellana, M. F. Review of Just Girls: Hidden Literacies and Life in Junior High, by Margaret J. Finders. Journal of Literacy Research. In press.
Orellana, M. F. (1997). Review of Con Respeto: Bridging the Distances Between Culturally Diverse Families and Schools, by Guadalupe Valdés. Contemporary Sociology, 26 (2), 209-210.
Orellana, M. F. & Thorne, B. (1997). Review of Race in the Making: Culture and the Child's Construction of Human Kinds, by Lawrence A. Hirschfeld. American Journal of Sociology, 103 (2), 501-503.
Presentations by Network Members:
Denner, J., Orellana, M. F. & Cooper, C. (1997, March). "Brokering home-school relationships: The role of community workers." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Educational Research Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Garcia Coll, C., Thorne, B., Cooper, C., Eccles, J., Scott-Jones, D. & Nakashima. C. (1997, April). "Beyond social categories: Race, ethnicity, social class, gender, and research on child development." Paper presented at annual meetings of the Society for Research on Child Development, Washington, D.C.
Orellana, M. F. (1997, July). "Children's views of their social worlds: Implications for practice," workshop for teachers at a multicultural leadership training institute, United Teachers of Los Angeles.
Orellana, M.F. (1997, May). "Central American immigrant children's views of Los Angeles," presented at the Central American Educational Conference (Central Americans in the U.S.: Building the Future Through Education). Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles.
Orellana, M. F., Ek, L., and Hernández, A. (1997, November). "Los nios inmigrantes de Pico Union: Sus vidas diarias y visiones del futuro." Presentation at the Novenas Jornadas Pedagogicas, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles.
Orellana, M. F. and Thorne, B. (1997, March). "Seasons of childhood in a year-round school community." Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago.
Orellana, M. F., Thorne, B., & Lam, W. S. E. (1997, June). "The transglobalization of contemporary childhoods." Paper presented at an international and interdisciplinary conference on Urban Childhood, Trondheim, Norway, June 1997, and at the University of Delaware, March 1997.
Thorne, B. (1997, June). "Gender dimensions of urban childhoods," invited workshop presented at international and interdisciplinary conference on Urban Childhood, Trondheim, Norway.
Thorne, B. (1997, March). "The criss-crossing of gender, ethnicity, 'race,' social class, and age in daily school life." Paper presented at the 1997 annual meetings of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, March.
Vázquez, I., Orellana, M., & Hernández, A. (1997, November). "Hope and learning: School-based community building," presented at the Association of Mexican American Educators Conference.
García Coll, C.T. & Magnuson, K.: To be or not to be: Racial and ethnic identity during middle childhood. Society for Research in Child Development, Washington, DC, April 3, 1997
García Coll, C.T.: What, when and where to be: Racial and ethnic identity during middle childhood. Judge Baker Children's Center, Boston, Massachusetts, May 7, 1997.
García Coll, C.T. The Role of Ethnicity or "Race" in Development in Middle Childhood. Invited Conversation. American Psychological Association, 105th Annual Convention. Chicago, August 17, 1997.
García Coll, C.T.: Children's Construction of Race and Ethnicity. New England Teachers' Conference. Providence, November 3, 1997.
Conference Presentations Under Review
Orellana, M.F., Lam, W. S. E., Chee, A. E., and Thorne, B. "Transnational schooling strategies: Implications for teachers of immigrant children." Proposal submitted for presentation at the Linguistic Minority Research Institute, University of California at Santa Cruz, March 27-28, 1998.
Orellana, M. F., Chee, A. E., and Lam, W. S. E.. "Exploring immigrant children's identity construction through pictures, maps and stories." Poster session proposed for the Annual Meeting of the Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA, April, 1998.
Orellana, M. F., Ek, L., & Hernandez, A. "Proposition 187 and bilingual education in an immigrant community." Accepted for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA, April, 1998.
Thorne, B., Orellana, M. F., Lam, W. S. E., and Chee, A. E. "Transnational childhoods: A comparative analysis." Proposal submitted for presentation at the 14th International Sociological Association World Congress, Montreal, Canada, July 26-August 1, 1998.

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