Resisting Assimilation to the Melting Pot:
The melting pot metaphor suggest that people from different backgrounds come to the United States and through the process of assimilation adapt to a new lifestyle integrating smoothly into the dominant culture. This article argues that immigrants from diverse cultural and ethnic groups that try to k...
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| description | The melting pot metaphor suggest that people from different backgrounds come to the United States and through the process of assimilation adapt to a new lifestyle integrating smoothly into the dominant culture. This article argues that immigrants from diverse cultural and ethnic groups that try to keep some of their cultural traditions may encounter conflict when trying to adapt to their life in the new context. The author contends for a cultural curriculum of the home endorsing family cultural values and traditions tha is overlooked by schools and educators, disregarding its potential for enhancing children’s learning process and academic achievement. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d69ba50588754d8b95c7fb23dd5699772023-02-15T16:14:42ZengOpenED NetworkJournal of Culture and Values in Education2590-342X2019-05-012110.46303/jcve.02.01.7Resisting Assimilation to the Melting Pot:Freyca Calderon Berumen0Pennsylvania State University AltoonaThe melting pot metaphor suggest that people from different backgrounds come to the United States and through the process of assimilation adapt to a new lifestyle integrating smoothly into the dominant culture. This article argues that immigrants from diverse cultural and ethnic groups that try to keep some of their cultural traditions may encounter conflict when trying to adapt to their life in the new context. The author contends for a cultural curriculum of the home endorsing family cultural values and traditions tha is overlooked by schools and educators, disregarding its potential for enhancing children’s learning process and academic achievement.https://cultureandvalues.org/index.php/JCV/article/view/25Cultural Curriculum of the homeParents as educatorsPedagogies of the home |
| spellingShingle | Freyca Calderon Berumen Resisting Assimilation to the Melting Pot: Journal of Culture and Values in Education Cultural Curriculum of the home Parents as educators Pedagogies of the home |
| title | Resisting Assimilation to the Melting Pot: |
| title_full | Resisting Assimilation to the Melting Pot: |
| title_fullStr | Resisting Assimilation to the Melting Pot: |
| title_full_unstemmed | Resisting Assimilation to the Melting Pot: |
| title_short | Resisting Assimilation to the Melting Pot: |
| title_sort | resisting assimilation to the melting pot |
| topic | Cultural Curriculum of the home Parents as educators Pedagogies of the home |
| url | https://cultureandvalues.org/index.php/JCV/article/view/25 |
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