Cultural Intuition as Our Guide: Co-Constructing Knowledge in the K–12 Classroom

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

In this symposium, critical women of color scholars and former classroom teachers will present their research findings as they relate to their agentic role within a colonial educational system. We take up various modes of inquiry to illuminate how our “cultural intuition” (Delgado Bernal, 1998), guides our approaches to research and pedagogy to combat historical erasure of communities of color and in learning with and from our students and our communities. Our work examines how these approaches subvert oppressive schooling practices by repositioning students as co-constructors of knowledge. We encourage scholars and educators to center the cultural intuition of BIPOC educators in creating approaches to education that bring about new possibilities for justice for our communities.

Sub Unit

• Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education / Division K - Section 03: Teachers’ and Teacher Educators’ Lives: Lived Experiences, Identities, Socialization and Development

Chair

• Dolores Delgado Bernal, Loyola Marymount University

Papers

• Nothing About Us Without Us: Combating Salvadoreñx Historical Erasure in Secondary History Courses - Cindy C. Mata, UC Irvine History Project

• Mapping Critical Consciousness: Young Women of Color Across Los Angeles - Mariana E. Ramirez, University of California - Los Angeles; Alice Im, Los Angeles Unified School District

• A Place Where Our Knowledge Is Shared: A Zapatista Approach to Community and Pedagogy - Sara Jasmin Diaz-Montejano, University of California - Los Angeles

Discussant

• Dolores Delgado Bernal, Loyola Marymount University