Adams Spanish Immersion and The Ascension Parish: Two Service-Learning Projects, Two Levels of Success

• Autores: Richard A. Raschio
• Localización: Hispania, ISSN 0018-2133, Vol. 87, Nº 1, 2004, págs. 122-127
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Recognizing the growing Hispanic presence locally and nationally, students in several classes at the University of St. Thomas (Twin Cities) undertook two Service-Learning projects to better comprehend the varied Hispanic impact. In one project, students worked with the Adams Spanish Jmmersion Magnet School as tutor-mentors to examine how immersion education may help to improve cross-cultural community relations. The Ascension Parish Project aimed to help a late-Nineteenth-Century Catholic parish in inner-city Minneapolis, strnggling with transition from a relatively homogeneous race, class and cultural composition to multi-ethnic, mixed racial and increasingly bícultural diversity. In both projects, the goals included investigating the process of integration and assimilation of the Latino majority population into the older society; linguistic apprenticeship and practice; community service, and heightened cultural awareness. The conference presentation summarized below examines the differing situations of the two initiatives and their varying levels of success.