16.015 - Transforming Educational Pathways for Chicana/o-Latina/o Students: A Decade of Critical Race Feminista Praxis

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This research symposium highlights findings from the first decade (2005-2015) of Adelante, a university-school-community partnership designed to challenge and counter the educational system’s failure to educate Chican@Latin@ students. We present our concept of critical race feminista praxis as one way of applying critical race and Chicana feminist theories in K-12 school settings, and outline our methods for affirming the racial and cultural identities of the students and families with whom we work. Five papers, each presenting data from different aspects of the partnership, will further contextualize the community-based strategies, research findings, and ways of knowing that can result from transforming the educational pathways for Chican@Latin@ students.

Sub Unit

• Committee on Scholars of Color in Education

Chair

• Enrique Aleman, The University of Texas - San Antonio

Papers

• "Ratchet of the Earth": Brown Youth Resistance in Neoliberal Schooling Contexts - Socorro Morales, University of Utah; Sylvia Mendoza, Palomar College

• Radical Mothering Praxis as Leadership: Lessons of Self-Love, Self-Worth, and the Audacity to Hope - Nereida Camacho Oliva, University of Utah

• "Two Schools Within a School": Tensions Perceived by Dual Language and Non–Dual Language Teachers - Juan A. Freire, Brigham Young University

• Understanding the Impact of the Diversity Scholars Program on the Adelante Undergraduate Mentors - Judith C. Pérez-Torres, University of Utah

• Sustaining a K–6 College-Going Culture, Infusing Chicana Feminist Values in a Community School Mission - Jana Edward, University of Utah; Alicia De Leon, University of Utah

Discussant

• Dolores Delgado Bernal, California State University - Los Angeles