
California Childhoods
The California Childhoods project was funded
by the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Successful Pathways through
Middle Childhood in a grant to Catherine Cooper (UC Santa Cruz) and Barrie
Thorne (UC Berkeley). As a postdoctoral research at the Institute of Human
Development at UC Berkeley, I conducted an ethnographic study of childrens
daily life experiences in Los Angeles. This was the same community in which
I had worked as a bilingual classroom teacher from 1983-1993. In this work,
as in the research in the other two CA Childhoods sites (led by Drs. Cooper
and Thorne), we examined the resources and opportunities available to children
in each locale, how those resources are taken up, and how children see and
experience their own lives.
Project Papers (based on research in Los Angeles)
Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, Karen Monkman, and Laurie MacGillivray. (2002). Coming Out Ahead vs. Being on Level: Parents and Teachers in an Urban Immigrant Community Talk about Success." Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement Technical Report Series #3-020.
Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (2001). "The Work Kids Do: Mexican and Central American Immigrant Childrens Contributions to Households and Schools in California." Harvard Educational Review, 71 (3): 366-389.
Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, Barrie Thorne, Anna Chee, and Wan Shun Eva Lam. (2001). "Transnational Childhoods: The Participation of Children in Processes of Family Migration." Social Problems, 48 (4): 573-592.
Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (1999). "Space and Place in an Urban Landscape: Learning from Childrens Views of Their Social Worlds." Visual Sociology, 14, 73-89.
Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, Lucila Ek, and Arcelia Hernández. (1999). "Bilingual Education in an Immigrant Community: Proposition 227 in California." International Journal of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education, 2 (2), 114-130.
Marjorie Faulstich Orellana and Barrie Thorne. (1998). "Year-Round Schools and the Politics of Time." Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 29 (4), 1-27.
Marjorie Faulstich Orellana and Arcelia Hernández. (1998). Talking the Walk: Children Reading Urban Environmental Print. The Reading Teacher, 52 (6), 612-619.
Barrie Thorne, Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, Wan Shun Eva Lam and Anna Chee. (In press). "Raising Children and Growing Up in Transnational Contexts: Comparative Perspectives on Generation and Gender." In Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette (Ed.) Gender and U.S. Immigration: Contemporary Trends. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, Lucila Ek, and Arcelia Hernández. (2000). "Proposition 227 and Bilingual Education in a Transnational Community." In Enrique Trueba and Lilia Bartolomé (Eds.) Immigrant Voices: In Search of Pedagogical Reform. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
OTHER PAPERS FROM THE CALIFORNIA CHILDHOODS PROJECT
Cooper, C. R. & Gándara, P. (2001). When diversity works: Bridging families, peers, schools, and communities at CREDE. Journal for the Education of Students Placed at Risk, 6, Nos 1 & 2.
Cooper, C. R. (2001). Bridging multiple worlds: Inclusive, selective,
and competitive programs, Latino youth, and pathways to college. Affirmative
development of ethnic minority students. The CEIC Review: A Catalyst
for Merging Research, Policy, and Practice, 9, 10-12.
Cooper, C. R., Denner, J., & Lopez, E. M. (1999). Cultural brokers:
Helping Latino children on pathways to success. The Future of Children,
9, 51-57.
Denner, J., Cooper, C. R., Lopez, E. M., & Dunbar, N. (1999). Beyond
"giving science away": How university-community partnerships
inform youth programs, research, and policy. Society for Research in
Child Development Social Policy Report, 13, 1-17.
Garcia Coll, C., Thorne, B., Cooper, C. R. and Orellana, M.F. (forthcoming.) "Beyond Social Categories: 'Race' and Ethnicity in School-Based Research with Children of Immigrants." In Catherine R. Cooper, Cynthia Garcia Coll, Todd Bartko, Helen Davis, and Célina Chapman, editors, Rethinking Diversity and Contexts as Resources for Children's Development. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Thorne, B. (in press). Pick-up time at Oakdale Elementary School: Work and family from the vantage points of children. In R. Hetz & N. Marshall (Eds.), Work and family: Todays realities and tomorrows visions. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Thorne, B. (forthcoming), "Unpacking School Lunch Time: Contexts, Interaction, and the Negotiation of Differences/" In Catherine R. Cooper, Cynthia Garcia Coll, Todd Bartko, Helen Davis, and Célina Chapman, editors, Rethinking Diversity and Contexts as Resources for Children's Development. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Thorne, B. (forthcoming.) "The Sociology and Anthropology of Childhood."
Encyclopedia on the History of Childhood. New York: Macmillan.
Thorne, B. (in press, 2003.) "The Crisis of Care," in Nan Crouter
and Alan Booth, eds., Work-Family Challenges for Low-Income Parents and
Their Children. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers.
Thorne, B. (in press, 2003.) "The Ins and Outs of Othering,"
in Barry Glassner and Rosanna Hertz, eds., Our Studies, Ourselves. New
York: Oxford University Press.
UCLA
Graduate School of Education and Information
Studies
Translations | CA
Childhoods | Gendered Literacy | Orellana
Top of Page