The Journal of Borderland Education (JBE) publishes critical, integrative pieces of research and literature pertaining to education and the notions of borders and the borderland. Potential publications should include conceptualizations, interpretations, and syntheses of literature and scholarly work in the respective field. Likewise, JBE encourages the submission of research and creative works relevant to education from any discipline, such as psychology, sociology, history, philosophy, political science, economics, instructional technology, statistics, anthropology, and biology, provided that the review centers on educational and border/borderland issues.

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Craig A. Hughes

School structures and organization can segregate students into programs where they feel slighted and ignored or can create environments of acceptance and success. Efforts at reorganizing school structures and organization are often conducted with little or no input from the students affected by such change. Through the use of narrative analysis, this article presents the perception of successful Mexican descent students in regards to the organization and structures of the high schools they attended. Their perceptions include structures and organizations that marginalized them, as well as those that made them feel accepted and motivated them.

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Children’s Uses of Spanish in an English Immersion Classroom as (Counter)liminal Spaces
John E. Petrovic & Adam Rankin

Switching Battlefields
Linda Fernsten