“La Puerta” Carving Methodological Doorways: From Arts-Based Auto Criticism to Transgenerational Knowing and Healing (Poster 11)

• In Event: Saturday Poster Sessions 7:45 am
  In Poster Session: Qualitative Methodologies and Social Justice in Education

Abstract

In this arts-based auto criticism, I explore the relationship between racial consciousness among four multiracial educators having one white parent and one parent of color and their intercultural curriculum. This unique participant group personifies the complexity of Homi Bhabha’s racial and cultural third space. Through incorporation of cultural collaging, collaborative graffiti mapping, poetic representation, and ancestor dialogue, I regard artistic forms of story sharing to reimagine contexts and relationships spanning the time-space continuum. Findings from this inquiry illustrate the utility of transgenerational insights as they specifically relate to the field of education.

Author

• Amanda Bucher, University of Northern Colorado