Latinx Students Working Toward Radical Healing: Reflections on the Possibilities of a Media Arts Residency

• In Event: 61.070 - Sheraton Roundtable 10 - Osgoode Ballroom
  In Roundtable Session: 61.070-5 - Reclamation and Refusal: Reimagining Curriculum for Healing and Hope

Abstract

This paper draws on data from an ethnographic study of a multimodal arts residency in the partnership between an arts organization and a school and school district to illuminate the possibilities of healing and hope. It focuses on how arts education, as “radical healing” spaces, fosters students’ imaginations to create a community in which they want to live. The study contributes to curriculum inquiry by addressing the ways multimodal arts learning activities afford youth to be healers of their “personal and ideological wounds.”

Authors

• Diana Chandara, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

• Betsy Maloney Leaf, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

• Bic H. Ngo, University of Minnesota