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Call Number: SC0268
Creator:
Castaneda, Alfredo.
Title: Alfredo Castaneda papers
Dates: 1972-1980
Physical Description:
11 Linear feet
Summary: These papers pertain to Castaneda's teaching career at Stanford
and include correspondence, student papers, reports, publication files, and course
materials. Subjects include his professional and teaching activities, his students,
bilingual education, and Mexican Americans. The papers also include minutes from
seminars held at the Boys Town for the Study of Youth Development at Stanford, 1975-76
(subsequently known as the Stanford Center for the Study of Youth
Development).
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
Transferred by School of Education, 1981.
Partially restricted: confidential student files not open.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is
given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not
intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission
must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See:
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of
digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.
Alfredo Castaneda Papers (SC0268). Department of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Alfredo Castaneda, a nationally prominent expert in multicultural education, was
professor of education at Stanford from 1972 until his death in 1981. He was the first
Chicano appointed full professor at Stanford. Castaneda received his a.b. from San
Francisco State in 1948 and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Ohio State in 1951 and 1952. Prior
to his appointment at Stanford, he taught at several universities including the
University of Toronto, Queens College of the City University of New York, the University
of Texas, and the University of California at Riverside, where he had been chairman of
Mexican- American Studies.
These papers pertain to Castaneda's teaching career at Stanford and include
correspondence, student papers, reports, publication files, and course materials.
Subjects include his professional and teaching activities, his students, bilingual
education, and Mexican Americans. The papers also include minutes from seminars held at
the Boys Town for the Study of Youth Development at Stanford, 1975-76 (subsequently
known as the Stanford Center for the Study of Youth Development).
Some student files contained materials of a sensitive nature. These have been separated
from the rest of the collection in Box 8 and are not open to researchers.
Boys Town Center for the Study of Youth
Development.
Castaneda, Alfredo.
Stanford Center for the Study of Youth
Development.
Stanford University. School of
Education--Curricula.
Stanford University. School of
Education--Faculty
Education, Bilingual --United States.
Mexican Americans--Education.