Communities of Resistance and Dissent, Aztlán-Anáhuc-Ixtepec, Gran México--Part 1: Critical, Local, Transnational Teachers and Teacher Education

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Our symposium is the first of two symposia that emerged from the first annual meeting of the Gloria Anzaldúa Archival Community (2025) in Austin Texas in May of 2025. This event united critical scholars and teachers from Aztlán-Anáhuc-Ixtepec local-transnational communities. With Mexican curriculum theorist Alicia de Alba (2007), we recognize the anatomy of the general structural crises along with the rising tide of fascisms, 2025. Within the crises, we believe our task to be the generation of communities and praxes we want to live in. We anchor our praxes in the articulation communities of resistance and dissent across local-transnational terrains with a focus on teacher education in Chicane-indigenous communities in Atzlán.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 5: Inquiry, Transformation, and Communities

Chairs

• Ana Laura Gallardo Gutiérrez, National Autonomous University of Mexico

• Gabriel Vega Torres, Universidad Pedagogógica Nacional Ixtepec

Papers

• Science Improvisations: Reconstructing the Past Through a Sense of Belonging - Zulema Williams, 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

• Las Fronterizas: Transnational Students Teaching U. S. history in Transnational-Local spaces - Raul Garza, University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley

• Borderlands of Science Education A Critical Curricular Praxis for Community Health and Healing - Miriam M. Ortiz, University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley

Session Organizer

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

Discussant

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