La Lotería and Creative Resistance: A Funds of Knowledge Approach to Art Education

• In Event: Roundtable Session 12
  In Roundtable Session: Funds of Knowledge in Latino Students' Family, School, and Community Contexts

Abstract

This study highlights the importance of using critical education methods in art education that services students of color from working class backgrounds. It displays how an arts educator draws from student home knowledge to develop the socio-political awareness of students through the Funds of Knowledge (FofK), Critical Pedagogy (CP) and Critical Race Theory (CRT) frameworks. This text introduces creative resistance as a tool in arts-education through the Latin-American game La Lotería, and provides culturally relevant capital for working class students of color despite having underfunded art programs.

Author

• Luis Genaro Garcia, Los Angeles Unified School District