La clase mágica

the long version

"La Clase Magica: Imagining Optimal Possibilities in a Bilingual Community of Learners is a blow-by-blow description of the early transformations of a project that began as an educational activity and slowly but deliberately turned into a social action project whose aim was to serve those with low economic and political means and little access to educational resources. This multi-vocal account details research in action for effectively serving Spanish-English bilingual speakers from a Mexican origin community as well as, on a broader level, the diverse populations that increasingly characterize American society today. The focus is on the early foundational work of the project between 1989-1996, though attention is also given to the national and international recognition the project has subsequently received, the college-going patterns of its long-term participants, and the transplantation of the project to other cultural communities."--BOOK JACKET.