Perspectivas y Problemas en Educación: Storytelling Across the Americas

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The xenophobic narratives currently emerging from governments across the Americas demand a response that honors immigrant and minoritized student experiences. Students whose narratives do not conform to those of the dominant storytellers suffer racial denigration, language marginalization, and cultural exclusion despite the globalization of populations, ideas, and cultural and political trends. This interdisciplinary symposium brings to the fore the voices of student and community stakeholders who see the flaws and desire justice in education. Through storytelling and counter-storytelling, we emphasize Latin American students' perspectives of their own experiences in educational systems that in many ways work against their well-being and success, arguing that their insights should shape, rather than merely reflect, the way education policy and scholarship are done.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 2: Differences and Intersectionalities

Chair

• Kiyomi Sánchez-Suzuki Colegrove, Texas State University

Papers

• Toasted O's: Navigating Violence and Unbelonging as a Latina Girl in a U.S. Elementary School - Anna Rodell, University of Florida

• "They Say We Are Wasting Our Summer": Latinx Student Perspectives on Remediation-Based Summer School - Erika Davis, University of Florida

• Haitian Immigrants in Chile's Educational System: How Antiblackness Affects Integration Through Education - Pía Molina, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Tampa Bay

• Welcome, Not Welcome? Public Institutions' and Immigrant Students' Responses to Anti-Immigration Policies - Carolyn Silva, University of Florida

Discussant

• Christopher L. Busey, University of Florida