Arte, Juego, y Sueños (Art, Play, and Dreams): Latinx Immigrant Youth in a Community-Based Summer Program

• In Event: Centering Community in Teacher Practice

Abstract

This ethnographic study examines the experiences of Latinx immigrant youth in a semi-urban/semi-rural community as they emerged out of the pandemic and participated in El jardin de sueños - a cultural arts summer program. This community-engaged study was guided by culturally relevant pedagogies and community cultural wealth theories. It nurtured out-of-school community learning spaces of "feeling free," a love for learning/writing, and healing with youth in a time of treacherous immigration policies and during a global pandemic. This study illuminates the complex ways dislocation and immigration impact Latinx youths' lives; it interrogates community engagement research and cultural arts as a pedagogy of truth-telling.

Author

• Rosa M. Jimenez, University of San Francisco