ERIC Number: EJ1456549
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 22
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ISSN: ISSN-0017-8055
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Echémonos Flores: A Mentoring Model for Latina Doctoral Students
Cynthia Carolina Terán López; Christina Convertino
Harvard Educational Review, v94 n4 p538-559 2024
In this essay, Cynthia Carolina Terán López and Christina Convertino present a new mentoring model for Latina doctoral students, the echémonos flores mentoring model (FEMM), which draws on the ideas of new tribalism and nos/otras in Gloria Anzaldúa's post-Borderlands work and the praxis of pláticas, or conversations, and testimonios to decenter whiteness in current mentoring models supporting Latina doctoral students. The authors lay out FEMM's five interrelated principles of epistemological kinship, academic scholarship focused on a shared commitment to social change, critical reflexivity, rejection of the split between bodymindspiritsoul in higher education, and dialogue between mentor and mentee using pláticas to express vulnerability, courage, and change and explain and illustrate each principle through the vivid experiences of their own mentoring relationship.
Descriptors: Latin Americans, Females, Hispanic Americans, Doctoral Students, Race, Disproportionate Representation, Mentors, Gender Bias, Barriers, Student Experience, Epistemology, Social Change, Reflection, Holistic Approach
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Texas (El Paso)
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