Intercambio: Political and Pedagogical Possibilities, Refusals, and Solidarities Across Empire (Poster 15)

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Abstract

This is a dissertation about the political and pedagogical possibilities, refusals, and defiant solidarities that emerge from what I conceptualize as “intercambio,” an approach to transnational exchanges and encounters among educators, social movements, and autonomous/popular education projects across various U.S. and Mexican geographies. Disillusioned with superficial enactments of social and racial justice in their institutions across the U.S. (Montaño et al., 2002), the focal participants of this study– preservice and in-service teachers, as well as educators in non-traditional settings– sought learning and inspiration across borders and geographies. This three-year ethnographically informed study documents the political and pedagogical translations, lessons learned, takeaways, refusals, and acts of solidarity that emerge from transnational encounters across U.S. and Mexican contexts.

Author

• Davíd Morales, Stanford University