Cultivating Educational Pathways: Latina/Chicana Mother-Daughter Pedagogies of Hope, Resistance, and Love

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Sunday 11:45 am - Gold 3
  In Roundtable Session: Reclaiming Knowledge, Reimagining Futures: Latiné Youth, Families, and Cultural Pedagogies of Resistance

Abstract

This study centers the voices and lived experiences of six Latina/Chicana mother-daughter dyads (grades 6–12) across Texas to explore how girls draw on their mothers’ cultural knowledge and intergenerational teachings to support their dreams and navigate school and life toward college. Through oral histories, writing, and art, I highlight how mothers and daughters use cuentos, kitchen table conversations, and embodied acts of love and resistance to embrace expansive identities, resist deficit narratives, and nurture personal and academic aspirations. Their stories illuminate the importance of creating policies, curriculum, and leadership opportunities within K–12 education that honors and builds upon these rich family and community knowledges to nurture our young Latina leaders and activists in pursuit of their goals.

Author

• Tracey Terece Flores, University of Texas at Austin