Feelin' Myself: Possibilities of a Pedagogy of Listening

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium discusses pedagogies of listening by examining how elderhood, “clecha” or street wisdoms, and cultural products each evoked transformative possibilities in three different contexts. Within the spaces of a higher education classroom, wrap-around social service provider, and Youth Development program each of the researchers listened closely to particular voices often kept on the margins: an abuelita (grandmother), youth who have been previously gang involved/incarcerated, and youth practitioners of Hip Hop. This symposium complexifies the approaches and underlying ideological perspectives that educators, institutional leaders, and researchers can work in solidarity with communities most affected in education and social services by learning from their stories in order to responsively support their needs.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 1: Micro-analyses of the social contexts of teaching and learning

Chair

• Angela Valenzuela, The University of Texas - Austin

Papers

• Toward an Abuelita Pedagogy in the Higher Education Classroom - Pedro E. Nava, Mills College

• Letting Go of Clecha, While Holding Corazón: A New Approach to Empowering Youth in Gangs - Cesar Cruz, Harvard University

• Rhythms of Resistance: Narratives of Critical Hope and Transformational Consciousness - G. T. Reyes, California State University - East Bay

Discussant

• Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Teachers College, Columbia University