Each One, Teach One: Chicanx/Latinx Students Creating Pedagogical Sites to Empower and Create Agency

• In Event: 72.027 - Culturally Engaging and Influential Precollege and College Environments

Abstract

The paper explores pedagogies developed outside of the classroom by Chicanx/Latinx college students to learn about their identities and experiences as students of color. The central argument of the paper is that school oppression fails to provide Chicanx/Latinx students a curriculum that supports them in developing careers around social justice work relevant to their communities. As a result, students create pedagogical sites that explore their capacity to act upon their environment in order to create the type of communities they desire by integrating issues of power, history, self-identity and the possibility of collective agency and struggle (Ginwright, 2010). Through this paper, we analyze how these pedagogical sites are built and how they nurture the epistemological needs of Chicanx/Latinx students.

Authors

• Rudy Medina, University of Utah

• Glenda Palomino, University of Utah

• Juan Salazar, University of Utah

• Carol Castaneda, University of Utah

• Miriam Flores, University of Utah

• Carlos Morales

• Sheryl Cansino