The Forum article accompanying the Feature Focus article for Volume 2 Issue 1 is entitled Forum: Pigs and Packers. In this Forum, Katherine Richardson Bruna is joined by scholars Angela Calabrese Barton and Jaime Grinberg to discuss a number of issues that add complexity to the taken-forgranted practices of teaching immigrant children in the US.

Angela Calabrese Barton is an associate professor of science education at Michigan State University. Drawing from critical and feminist theories, her research focuses on high poverty urban middle school youths’ scientific literacies in and out of school and on the preparation of teachers to teach science in high poverty urban communities. Jaime Grinberg is a professor of educational foundations at Montclair State University in New Jersey, USA. He obtained his doctorate from Michigan State University and has taught and lectured at numerous institutions in the USA, Mexico, Argentina, and Israel among other places. He teaches undergraduate classes on global issues and on the history and philosophy of eEducation, as well as teaches masters and doctoral classes on issues of language, culture and power, and on the history and politics of curriculum and teaching.

DOI: 10.1007/s11422-006-9042-9-x
Online Date: 12/22/2006
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