Solidarity of Difference: A Caring Discussion About Culture, Power, and New Traditions in Higher Education

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session provide multiple approaches on the application of bicultural pedagogies and Indigenous epistemologies in higher education. More specifically, the authors engage with Antonia Darder’s theoretical framework of critical bicultural pedagogy and Larry Emerson’s epistemological application of Hohzo in higher education. Furthermore, this session demonstrates how a culturally diverse collaborative of professionals can forge new alternative practices within higher education to challenge Western practices of the academy, in order to provide more holistic learning experiences for non-traditional student populations within university settings.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

Chair

• Judith Estrada, University of California - Santa Cruz

Papers

• Forging a Bicultural Praxis Within Institutions of Higher Education - Jerry Diaz, University of California - Santa Cruz

• Reflexiones: Applying a Critical Bicultural Pedagogy in Student Affairs - Judith Estrada, University of California - Santa Cruz

• A Methodology of Beauty - Charlotte Elizabeth Davidson, South Dakota State University

• Supporting Indigenous Cultural Grounding for Bicultural Navigation in the Higher Education Experience - Jamie M. Singson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Discussant

• Antonia Darder, Loyola Marymount University