A Culturally Responsive Curriculum Adapted by Latina Faculty at a Hispanic-Serving Institution

• In Event: Exploring the Roles and Opportunities at HSIs and HBCUs for Latina/o/x Community

Abstract

Despite Latina faculty underrepresentation at higher education institutions constitutes a challenge, their teaching approach represents a pragmatic and epistemological change in students’ learning and the classroom climate. Latina faculty's determination to provide a more diversified curriculum and especially more representative of the student body at a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) are critical to instilling in students a sense of empowerment and leadership in their disciplines. This case study addressed the experiences of six Latina professors in different disciplines at a south border HSI who integrate culturally responsive curricula through values, attitudes, and beliefs that make the student learning process better situated in their personal, cultural, and social experiences.

Author

• Hilda Cecilia Contreras Aguirre, New Mexico State University