Latinx Immigrant Children's Beliefs About Learning With/From Peers in Three First-Grade Classrooms

• In Event: AERA Poster Session 9
  In Poster Session: Social and Cultural Contexts in Learning and Instruction

Abstract

This video-cued ethnographic study examined the relationship between the types of learning opportunities that children from Latinx immigrant families are offered in three pedagogically distinct US first grade classrooms and children’s beliefs about learning – particularly their beliefs about their ability to collaborate and learn with and from their peers. Findings from this study show how Latinx children understand and feel a commitment to collaborating with their peers in a way consistent with the features of LOPI (Rogoff, 2014), even when they were in classroom environments that can be characterized as assembly-line instruction.

Author

• Molly Ellen McManus, San Francisco State University