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Mexican and Mexican American Student Reflections on Transfer: Institutional Agents and the Continued Role of the Community College
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Cortez, Edén; Castro, Erin L. – Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 2017
This qualitative analysis draws upon the experiences of six Mexican and Mexican American community college transfer students during the 2012-2013 academic year. Relying on literature regarding institutional agents, we examine students' reflections regarding pre- and post-transfer support from both institutional agents and structured student…
Descriptors: Reflection, Qualitative Research, Mexican American Education, Mexican Americans
The Reliability and Validity of the Cultural Congruity and University Environment Scales with Chicana/o Community College Students
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Gloria, Alberta M.; Castellanos, Jeanett; Herrera, Nancy – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2016
Following the calls for increased research on the educational experiences of Chicana/o community college students, and the development of culturally applicable measures for communities of color, this study examined the utility and the applicability of the Cultural Congruity Scale (CCS) and University Environment Scale (UES) for use with Chicana/o…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Reliability, Validity
Teaching as a Healing Craft: Decolonizing the Classroom and Creating Spaces of Hopeful Resistance through Chicano-Indigenous Pedagogical Praxis
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Villanueva, Silvia Toscano – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2013
This paper builds upon the edict for self-determination in El Plan de Santa Barbara: a Chicano plan for higher education (1969), which calls for "strategic use of education," by placing value on needs of the community (La Causa, p. 9). For me, this passage translates into valuing needs of community-college students entering my classes…
Descriptors: Resistance (Psychology), Self Determination, Mexican American Education, Indigenous Knowledge
Pedagogies of Survival: Cultural Resources to Foster Resilience among Mexican-American Community College Students
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Campa, Blanca – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2013
This in-depth case shows how five Mexican-American community college students use their "pedagogies of survival" to build resistance and navigate through the barriers of community colleges. Pedagogies of survival emanate from social, cultural, economic, and historical struggles of the students, their families, and their communities which…
Descriptors: Mexican American Education, College Students, Community Colleges, Resistance (Psychology)