42.083-5 - Reflexiones From Nepantlerx Researchers: Exposing the Tension-Rich Realities of Working With Latinx Youth

• In Event: 42.083 - Roundtable Session 17

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This session offers a critical conversation across community-engaged scholars regarding tensions that arise while working with Latinx youth. Drawing on qualitative reflections, the papers featured explore the messiness in learning from and collaborating with youth across different ages, genders, and citizenship status. As more Latinx students enroll in schools across the country, this work couples researcher subjectivities and empirical data in order to build on scholarly conversations about youth and educational research that focuses on teaching and learning, while also highlighting the complexities of youth’s lives and identities. Our session concludes with implications for classroom praxis, methodologies around educational and community research, and specifically ways that educators and researchers can explore these dynamics further and become allies to their students.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Critical Educators for Social Justice

Chair

• Gabriel Alejandro Cortez, Northeastern Illinois University

Papers

• Situating Youth Participatory Action Research Within a Nepantlera Methodology - Monica Gonzalez, University of Colorado - Boulder

• Reexamining Theories of Resistance to Include Chicana/o/x Elementary-Aged Youth - Sylvia Mendoza, Palomar College

• Notas From the Field: Reflexiones, Dudas, y Convivencia - Gabriel Rodriguez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• The "Intellectual Vato": The Testimonio of a Youth Outreach Worker and Scholar-Activist in Mexican Chicago - Miguel Angel Saucedo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign