Franciscan Inscription: Culturally Responsive Pedagogical Encounters With 16th-Century Colonial Books and 16mm Educational Cinema

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Abstract

This paper emerges from the intersection of an ongoing study focused on the largest collection of books from the first Western colonial college and library in the Western Hemisphere, the Colegio de la Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco (Wood, 1998), and an ongoing engagement with the Other Cinema archive of 16mm educational films (Luckhurst, 2008). Drawing on an a/r/tographic (Irwin, 2013) and currere (Pinar, 1975) methods, this paper takes an object-oriented lens (Harman, 2018) to the study of this curricular archive to ask questions about what these colonial books have to say to educators and educational researchers today, and how creative research methodologies can open up space to listen to, hear, and engage these educational archives more generally.

Author

• Alex Mejía, San Francisco State University