The interest-convergence principle proposes that change benefitting people and communities of color only occurs when those interests also benefit Whites. As newly transplanted Chicano/a residents of a state facing exponential growth of its Latino immigrant population, we have attempted to counter the efforts criminalizing members of our Latino/a…

Critical pedagogy is an instructional approach to teaching that employs a theoretical framework by which social injustices are critiqued. This type of pedagogy encourages the learner to critique obstructions to the learner's full participation in society, and encourages critical collective action, through the engagement of the learner's…

In this article, the author reflects on the uses of multimedia literacy and discusses a unique but replicable process of creating a video poem linking her artistic visions with some personal life experiences. Rethinking notions of teacher as learner, the author draws upon particular learning moments to reconceptualize current teaching practices…