Arrebatando Experiencias Escolares: Introducing Critical Elements of Culturally Sustainable Teaching to Chicana Educators for Aztlan

• In Event: Explorations of Past and Future: Narrative Spaces of Teaching and Learning

Abstract

This paper is an ethnographic exploration of experiences in integrating Chicanx studies into a social studies methods course to pre-service elementary Chicana teachers. Drawing on Itinerant Curriculum Theory, I use elements of decolonial theory, ethnic studies curriculum, and Chicanx studies, with a special focus on Gloria Anzaldúa. Student work collected during the semester, along with my own experiences in teaching the content, is used to draw out consistent themes of students’ reflective experiences with the content. Infusing Chicanx Studies into the curriculum gives pre-service teachers of color the opportunity to think critically about the curriculum, an important skill to share with their future students.

Authors

• Raul Garza, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

• James Jupp