Experiences of Four Latina Teachers During Their First Year Teaching (Poster 33)

• In Event: AERA Poster Session Fourteen
  In Poster Session: Experiences of Four Latina Teachers During Their First Year Teaching

Abstract

This work shares experiences of four Latina teachers in their first year teaching to discuss how they faced oppressive interactions and the wisdom from which they drew to disrupt them. Using ancestral wisdom as a theoretical lens, I focus on how these teachers navigated their experiences. Ancestral wisdom is the application of knowledge gained through spanning generations, embodied and made part of identity, and used to deny subjugation and generate openings of alternate possibilities. Cultural intuition, a methodological process and an epistemological standpoint, guides analysis and purposefully centers these teachers as knowledge holders and creators in the teaching profession. Teacher experiences exemplify powerful sharing of disruption specifically aimed at expectations and ideas about students and about how to teach.

Author

• Teresa Sosa, Indiana University - Indianapolis
  Presenting Author