“We Never Talk About Mexico”: Digital Storytelling as a Form of Resistances With Latinx Preadolescents

• In Event: Language as Resistance: Empowering Students Through Translingual, Transnational, and Multimodal Pedagogies

Abstract

Multilingual and multicultural students face the challenge of understanding where their culture and language lie in learning. The education system in the United States lacks inclusivity in classrooms, continuing monocultural views and monolithic language ideals as the norm and encouraged in curriculum and standards. In order to have a clearer understanding of how multicultural and multilingual students navigate learning, it is important to explore the power structures and the effect of languages in learning and schools. This paper presents the use of multimodal literacy, digital storytelling to explore signs and representation and argues for its broader use in educational research for studying multicultural and multilingual students, specifically Latinx students' negotiation in learning and highlighting inequities in the classroom.

Author

• Jennifer Barreto, Eastern Michigan University