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68.024 - La Transfronteriza: Navigating the Borderlands Toward Equitable Education

Mon, May 1, 10:35am to 12:05pm, Grand Hyatt San Antonio, Floor: Third Floor, Bonham C

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Borders and boundaries limit educational opportunities: whether material borders between nation-states, policies limiting the use of multilingual education, or epistemological boundaries restrain the reach and impact of scholarly work. For students situated and navigating these spaces their complex identities of being historically seen as deficits, excluded from policy discourse and claimed to be not worthy of an “American Identity” (Patel, 2013) have greatly impacted their experiences. These spaces of marginalization and exclusion can be reclaimed through a new consciousness of borderlands that offer opportunities to transformation educational settings, affirm students, and promote a political context that acknowledges the realities and strengths of those navigating borders (Anzaldúa, 2012).
Within the current social and political climate, students across all levels of education continue to cross borders, or live transfronterizo experiences in order to navigate and assimilate into a system that was not built for them in mind. Centering the theories of transnational/transfronterizo crossings, this session highlights the work of scholars who explore the constant crossing of these borderlands in search of equitable education.

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