Cultivating transnational solidarities through co-designed literacy events: Examining the practices of a Mexico-US educational partnership

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Abstract

How can we understand educational issues across national borders, and address them through coordinated solidarities? What practices support transnational collaborations? This paper focuses on a Mexico-US partnership and how its members construct, navigate, and continually evolve our collaboration. We draw on the concept of “literacy events” as an analytical tool to unpack the group’s collective practices, in order to understand the nuances, tensions, and possibilities of transnational partnerships. Our findings underscore how literacy is a vehicle to (1) learn from communities on both sides of the border about systemic injustices that are a legacy of coloniality; (2) create community across difference as partners learn from one another’s situated experiences; and (3) develop shared conceptual frameworks to take action.

Authors

• Maria Paula Ghiso, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Gerald Campano, University of Pennsylvania

• Maria Beatriz Pinto, University of Pennsylvania

• Gabriela Hargraves, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Kelsey Trudo, University of Pennsylvania

• Jacqueline Winsch, University of Pennsylvania

• Yanil De La Rosa, University of Pennsylvania