A Broad Array of Criticalities and Lived Experiences in STEM Education: Llano Grande, Aztlán, México Profundo

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

As colleagues and friends working in Llano Grande, Azltán, México profundo we provide this symposium highlighting conceptual-empirical research grounded in a critical vision of our bioregion: Llano Grande, Aztlán, México profundo. In each presentation, we build on curriculum and educational foundations’ critical knowledges to study our students and our own conscientization processes in STEM education. In our learning, teaching, and research, we think that understanding preservice and in-service teachers’ lived experiences and conscientization processes are crucial for the struggle over minds and hearts in classrooms within the general structural crisis of neoliberalism and the rising tide of White supremacist fascism. Each presentation adds a distinct dimension to teachers and preservice teachers’ critical pedagogies and conscientization processes.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies / Division B - Section 5: The Places and Praxis of Curriculum

Chair

• James C. Jupp, University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley

Discussants

• Ana Carolina Diaz Beltran, University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley

• Alejandro J. Gallard Martínez, Georgia Southern University

Papers

• Intersecting Criticalities in a Health-Centric Science Curriculum - Miriam M. Ortiz, University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley

• My Journey as an Elementary Science Teacher: From Linear to Authentic Criticalities - Johanna Lynn Esparza, University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley; James C. Jupp, University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley

• Science Improvisations: Becoming Primary Agents of Transformation in Curriculum - Zulema Williams, University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley

• Beyond Borders: Leveraging Cultural Ways of knowing - Patricia Ramirez, University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley