Critical Ethnography to Interrogate, Organize and Imagine Justicia: Learning in, from, with, and amongst comunidad

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This panel symposium offers critical ethnographic methods as a response to the call for humanizing research that contends with historical forces of oppression and creates pathways for current and future interruptions via critical, collaborative and participatory action research in distinct community learning contexts. Four papers explore the coalition building and learning taking place when the needs, knowledges and actions of those marginalized by language, race, documentation, class and colonial contexts are centered as they imagine and create pathways for equity (Cervantes-Soon & Carillo, 2016). These include participant researcher testimonio writing, translanguaging pedagogies and community organizing pedagogies, which we bring into discussion across contexts to highlight how practitioners and pedagogies are supporting personal and collective transformation and developing pathways of liberation.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Critical Educators for Social Justice

Chair

• Anel V. Rivera Guerrero, Rutgers University

Papers

• Recordándome: Reframing Knowledges of Self in an Autoethnographic Workshop for Language Teachers - Anel V. Rivera Guerrero, Rutgers University

• Just Existing Is Political”: Transborder Organizing Pedagogies at a Community-Based Organization for Immigrant and Workers’ Rights - Chloe Bellows, Rutgers University

• El Limbo de la Bemba: Puerto Rico Educators’ Resisting Cultural Erasure in Language Education Spaces - Sheila Marie Feliciano, Rutgers University

• Resisting Our Erasure: Our Language, Our Histories, and Our Futures. A CPAR Study with Emerging Multilingual Adults from Mexico and Central America - Amanda Marie Dominguez, Rutgers University

Session Organizer

• Anel V. Rivera Guerrero, Rutgers University

Discussant

• Amanda Marie Dominguez, Rutgers University