The Moral Ethic of Cariño: Critical Pedagogies in the Teaching of Immigrant-Origin Students

• In Event: Fairmont Roundtable Session Fourteen
  In Roundtable Session: Transformative Pedagogical Spaces: Critical Literacies, Racial Literacies, and Translanguaging in and Beyond the Classroom (Table 3)

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to examine (a) the practices and (b) perspectives of highly effective teachers of immigrant-origin Latinx youth. This study highlights critical approaches to teaching immigrant-origin Latinx youth. The findings of this study offer possible critical pedagogical implications that affirm the experiential knowledge of Latinx youth as a catalyst for curriculum design.
The objective of this paper is to report findings from a portraiture study aimed at understanding the practices and perspectives of community-nominated, highly effective teachers of immigrant-origin Latinx youth. For this purpose of this proposal, I will highlight one teacher’s practices and perspectives across a working framework on the ethic of cariño.

Author

• Karla Lomeli, Santa Clara University
  Presenting Author