"Becoming Curricula" in a Landscape of Reluctance: Crossing Borders in a Southern State Public Pre-K

• In Event: 67.070 - Sheraton Roundtable 14 - Grand Centre
  In Roundtable Session: 67.070-8 - (Re)Creating Possibilities With Curriculum Within Constrained Times, Spaces, and Materials

Abstract

This session is the story of our frustration with the marginalizing effects of the sociohistorical construct of “English as a second language” instruction and the narrow curriculum for those who speak Spanish in our community. This frustration drove us to design a curriculum around storytelling and building with open-ended, recycled materials toward theorybuilding about self, school, matter, mind -- an intra-active meaning-making (Hultman & Lenz Taguchi, 2010). Our curricular work is a sociohistorical contextualization and theoretical, but also a practical collaboration with a school district, and a troubling of truth-claiming that participant research poses when the minds of students are unknowable, but the stakes are so high.

Authors

• Timothy A. Kinard, Texas State University

• Mary Esther Huerta, Texas State University - San Marcos

• Jesse Straus Gainer, Texas State University - San Marcos