Pedagogical and Leadership. Practices When the Messenger is the Message: Asian American Educators Explore Hybridity, Identity, and History in Elementary Classrooms

• In Event: AERA Teachers of Color Handbook Session 2

Abstract

This chapter examines the pedagogical practices of three diverse Asian American elementary educators in Texas public schools. Asian American critical race theory is used to examine the teachers' own educational experiences as well as their approaches to teaching Asian American history. The teachers engaged in critically conscious pedagogies that centered Asian American voices, experiences, and histories while fostering student understandings about diverse identities across race, place, and time, illustrating the ways in which Asian American educators can provide important insight into notions of citizenship and belonging.

Author

• Noreen Naseem Rodriguez, University of Colorado - Boulder