ERIC Number: EJ1028472
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014
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Decolonizing the Classroom through Critical Consciousness: Navigating Solidarity "en La Lucha" for Mexican American Studies
Espinoza-Gonzalez, Daniel; French, Kristen B.; Gallardo, Stephanie; Glemaker, Ethan; Noel, Saraswati; Marsura, Michelle; Mehary, Elaine; Saldaña-Spiegle, Nadia; Schimpf, Brendan; Thaw, Chelsea
Educational Forum, v78 n1 p54-67 2014
In this article, college students and faculty narrate their co-constructed journey across differences, through intersecting identities and intertwining paths in an effort to stand in solidarity with students, teachers, and community members resisting the removal of the Mexican-American Studies (MAS) program in the Tucson Unified School District in Arizona, USA, in 2012. They used critical personal narratives (CPNs) as a decolonizing methodology and transformed their academic spaces to create conditions for critical consciousness cultivation through embracing the MAS's foundational elements of "Tezkatlipoka." They assert that academic spaces can and should be used as centers for self-reflection, relationship-building, global and local change-making, and development of the critical hope necessary to continue the efforts to engage in "la lucha"--the struggle--for broadened and more diverse approaches to education everywhere.
Descriptors: Reflection, Mexican Americans, Personal Narratives, Self Advocacy, College Faculty, College Students, Educational Change, Consciousness Raising, Mexican American Education, Ethnic Studies, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Arizona
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