Teaching El Movimiento: How Teachers Come to Understand History Through Critical Historical Inquiry and Multicultural Children's Literature

• In Event: 67.060 - Addressing Hegemony Through Counternarratives

Abstract

This paper uses Latinx Critical Race Theory and Critical Historical Inquiry to explore how four Latinx pre-service bilingual teachers used historical fiction children’s literature and historical inquiry to develop their understandings of Latinx histories. The study findings contend that experiences become integral to their pedagogical practices.

Authors

• Cinthia S. Salinas, The University of Texas at Austin

• Maria E. Franquiz, University of Utah

• Melissa Rojas Williams, The University of Texas at Austin