La Lotería as Creative Resistance; Art Education and Ethnic Studies as Self Inquiry and Healing.

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  In Roundtable Session: On Arts and Ethnic Studies in Educational Research

Abstract

This paper explores how K-12 educators use the game of La Lotería as Creative Resistance (Author1), to explore student (9-12) identities and challenge issues of race, class, and gender in Art and Ethnic Studies courses. The authors show how students’ familial knowledge supports transformational growth by; 1. Welcoming students’ histories and knowledge through Critical Pedagogy, Critical Race Theory, and the Funds of Knowledge practices ; 2. Honoring students home knowledge & cultural wealth of their lived experiences while challenging issues of race, class, and gender; and 3) Showing how pedagogies of the home like the game of La Lotería can be used by educators to re-imagine how we can collectively learn, challenge harmful practices, and heal through liberatory student-teacher collaborations.

Authors

• Luis Genaro Garcia, California State University - Sacramento

• Roxana Daylen Dueñas, Los Angeles Unified School District