Normalistas-teachers offering epistemic feminisms from the Global South

• In Event: Critical Curriculum Issues in Higher Education: Access and Teacher Preparation

Abstract

Normalistas-teachers from Mexico are not recognized as providers of epistemic insights in education. Canonical elites have excluded “ordinary” and anonymous people as active subjects in the epistemic construction of knowledge. In part, this is because normalistas-teachers build their epistemic contribution through non-traditional vehicles of knowledge, in other words, through literature. This paper looks at the case of one normalista-teacher, Vicky Rodríguez, and the epistemic concepts she offers through one of her literary works, La Noria (The Water Borehole). The findings show how La Noria depicts the specific intellectual locus of enunciation from which normalistas-teachers construct their epistemology. Vicky Rodríguez, like other normalistas-teachers, offers a critical epistemological notion of immediate power which is discussed in this study.

Author

• Raul Olmo Fregoso Bailón, University of Nevada - Reno