Pathways to Collective Consciousness: Conceptualizing Countercultural Spaces in Teacher Preparation

• In Event: The Practice of Reflexivity in Critical and De/colonial Work

Abstract

In this proposal, we (a group of faculty/staff/students/community members) conceptualize the creation of a multicultural space in a college of education for the purposes of healing, educating, and building solidarities while developing professional identities. Applying principles of social foundations, we envision this space as reinvigorating the call for intersectional justice. Using Anzaldua’s pathway to conocimiento and Lipsitz’s notion of spatial imaginaries, we develop a framework for developing the space to serve as a countercultural space.

Authors

• Lauren R Contreras, Northern Arizona University

• Alana Kennedy, Northern Arizona University

• Carmen X Arciniega, Northern Arizona University

• Robert Randez, Northern Arizona University

• Heather Lindfors-Navarro, Northern Arizona University

• Cynthia Villareal, Northern Arizona University

• Catharyn Shelton, Northern Arizona University

• Darrell Marks, Northern Arizona University

• Christine Lemley, Northern Arizona University

• Gerald Wood, Northern Arizona University