Repeat Performance: How Adult Education Reproduces the Status Quo.

Sparks, Barbara

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Publication Date: 1998

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Repeat Performance: How Adult Education Reproduces the Status Quo.

Sparks, Barbara

Journal of Adult Education, v26 n1 p3-15 Sum 1998

In interviews 30 Chicano/a adults without high school diplomas described their experiences with education: teachers' discriminatory attitudes, lack of academic quality in youth and adult education, and lack of respect for their culture. (SK)

Descriptors: Adult Education, Dropouts, Educational Attainment, Educational Experience, English Instruction, Ethnography, High Schools, Hispanic Americans, Junior High Schools, School Attitudes

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Language: English

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