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Margaret (Greta) A. Gibson

Margaret (Greta) A. Gibson   
    Title:  Professor of Education and Anthropology
    Specialization:  Social Context
    Email:  ggibson@ucsc.edu
    Phone:  (831) 459-4740 Office
    Office:  Social Sciences 1, 259

Education History 
Ph.D., Educational Anthropology
University of Pittsburgh

Courses Taught 
EDUC 128 Immigrants and Education
EDUC 207 Social Foundation of Education
EDUC 262 Social and Cultural Context of Education
EDUC 288 Ethnographies of Education

Research Focus 
Immigrants and education; minority status and schooling; ethnicity, class, gender, and educational processes; peer influences and school performance; secondary education; migrant education; transitions to college; qualitative research methods; Mexican American youth; Punjabi Sikhs in the U.S.

Selected Publications 

School Connections: U.S. Mexican Youth, Peers and School Achievement, edited with P. Gandara & J.P. Koyama. New York: Teachers College Press, 2004.

Improving Graduation Outcomes for Migrant Students. ERIC Digest EDO-RC-03-2. ERIC Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools (ERIC Identifier: ED478061), 2003.

Dropout prevention: How Migrant Education Supports Mexican Youth. With L. Bejinez. Journal of Latinos and Education, 2002, 1(3), 155-175.

The New Latino Diaspora and Educational Policy. In S. Wortham, E. Hamann & E. Murillo (Eds.), Education in the New Latino Diaspora: Policy and the Politics of Identity. Westport, CT: Ablex, 2001.

Promoting Academic Success among Immigrant Students: Is Acculturation the Issue? Educational Policy, 1998, 12(6), 615-633.

Complicating the Immigrant/Involuntary Minority Typology-Conclusion. Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1997, 28(3), 431-454.

Additive Acculturation as a Strategy for School Improvement. In R. Rambaut and W. Cornelius (Eds.), California's Immigrant Children: Theory, Research, and Implications for Educational Policy. La Jolla, Calif.: Center for U. S.?Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 1995.

Minority Status and Schooling: A Comparative Study of Immigrant and Involuntary Minorities, edited with John Ogbu. New York, NY, Garland Publishing Inc., 1991.

Ethnicity, Gender and Social Class: The School Adaptation Patterns of West Indian Youth. In M. A. Gibson and J. Ogbu (Eds.), Minority Status and Schooling: A Comparative Study of Immigrant and Involuntary Minorities. New York: Garland Publishing, 1991.

Accommodation without Assimilation: Sikh Immigrants in an American High School. Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 1988.