Mariella Espinoza-Herold’s research while affiliated with Northern Arizona University and other places

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Publications (4)


Issues in Latino education: Race, school culture, and the politics of academic success, 2nd edition
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April 2017

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Mariella Espinoza-Herold

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Candid and illuminating, this text exposes the educational realities of Latinos (U.S. and foreign-born) in K-12 public schools in the Western United States from the students’own perspectives. Through the testimonies of students who struggled to graduate from high school, issues that are often oversimplified and commonly misunderstood are brought to life. The students themselves offer pragmatic solutions to reduce the unchanging academic gap among culturally diverse groups. Their accounts are then compared with the viewpoints of a range of K-12 teachers on matters of community, learning, race, culture, and school politics. Examining in depth the question of how to best educate a growing culturally and linguistically diverse student population, this critical case study provides food for thought and provokes reflection on the critical role that human interactions and networking play in attaining one’s dreams and human aspirations.


Introduction to the Volume
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March 2016

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1 Citation

NABE Journal of Research and Practice

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Culture-Based Education: Lessons from Indigenous Education in the U.S. and Southeast Asia

March 2014

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2,228 Reads

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26 Citations

NABE Journal of Research and Practice

Cultured–based pedagogy has been positively related to students’ socio-emotional well-being, civic engagement, school motivation and higher academic outcomes, particularly with culturally-diverse students is concerned. This paper examines the benefits of culture-based education in the context of indigenous education in the United States as well as in communities in Southeast Asia. It also demonstrates the possibilities that may arise when communities are able to guide the education of their children and ensure meaning to their lives.


Stepping beyond S� Se Puede: Dichos as a Cultural Resource in Mother?Daughter Interaction in a Latino Family

January 2008

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Anthropology & Education Quarterly

This mother—daughter case study focuses on a key feature of discourse within a Mexican immigrant family that links oral traditions to resilience and motivation. I combine observations from a previous ethnographic study with recent follow-up interviews of a Mexican immigrant student building on a funds of knowledge framework and an ecological perspective. Expanding on current mother—daughter pedagogic theory, I map “dichos” as they are emblematic of cultural funds of knowledge and how they assume a relationship to resistance and academic attainment for a young Mexican immigrant. The findings challenge the notion that working-class Latino families do not care about the educational fortunes of their youth and lack knowledge and resources to guide their children academically.

Citations (3)


... Local culture and education have a close relationship in shaping learners' behaviour (Cherng et al., 2019). The concept of culture-based education requires teachers to understand the life and cultural background of learners so that they can become independent learners as a provision for dealing with various problems that they will face in the future (Singh & Espinoza-Herold, 2014 learning will be more relevant to the conditions and situations experienced by students. According to Wiredu, one of the main qualities of an educated person is knowledge of the cultural and natural environment (Balogun, 2023). ...

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PHILOSOPHICAL VALUE OF SUMANGET KA-SUMEDANGAN IN EFFORTS TO DEVELOP STUDENTS' CHARACTER IN SUMEDANG REGENCY
Culture-Based Education: Lessons from Indigenous Education in the U.S. and Southeast Asia

NABE Journal of Research and Practice

... Quality education in schools is education that creates the students in achieving the expected academic standard targets under conditions of healthy and optimal self development.The function of education must be carefully considered in order to achieve national education goals. Basically, a teacher must have a high enough potential to develop creativity that is useful for improving the performance (Beare, Caldwell, & Millikan, 2018;Bunce, Bair, & Jones, 2017;Espinoza-Herold, & González-Carriedo, 2017). ...

Issues in Latino education: Race, school culture, and the politics of academic success, 2nd edition
  • Citing Book
  • April 2017

... Scholarship has pointed to the ways in which home and community knowledge are central to literacies (González Ybarra, 2020;Nuñez, 2023;Nuñez & García-Mateus, 2021;Villenas, 2005). Pedagogical practices of the home, including pláticas (knowledge shared through dialogue), testimonio (narratives of marginalization and survival), cuentos (stories from lived experience), and dichos (sayings), for example, are powerful oral literacy practices that hold important knowledge and lessons for Latina/x girls about history, oppression, resistance, and survival (Delgado-Gaitan, 1994;Espinoza-Herold, 2007;Villenas & Foley, 2002). Research also demonstrates that Latina/x girls draw on those literacy practices to think about and actively engage in contemporary social justice discourses and projects that are important to them (González Ybarra, 2020). ...

Stepping beyond S� Se Puede: Dichos as a Cultural Resource in Mother?Daughter Interaction in a Latino Family
  • Citing Article
  • January 2008

Anthropology & Education Quarterly