Tānko Dialogues in Tlahtocan: (Re)centering on Community and Indigenous Pedagogies from Central Texas

Multiple Presenter Session: Panel

Abstract

Seldom has Indigenous educational scholarship and research focused on Indigenous peoples from Texas. Our panel has two intentions: 1) to (re)center on the panelists’ collective and co-constructed knowledge as educators working and living in relation to a local Coahuiltecan community in Texas. As participants of the Tānko Institute, a teacher education program led by Indigenous elders, each panelist will share self-reflective inquiries about learning and practicing Indigenous pedagogies in P-20 contexts; 2) facilitating a Mesoamerican dialogue circle, known as Tlahtocan, we will share our efforts supporting the reclamation Indigenous onto-epistemologies among our communities in Central Texas and beyond and invite our participants to (re)envision, with us, education from Indigenous perspectives. We will ask and address: a) What motivates us to learn and engage Indigenous pedagogies in our teaching practices? b) How do we and/or the teachers with whom we work engage Indigenous pedagogies in our learning environments?

Sub Track

• AESA

Chair

• Pablo Montes, Texas Christian University

Presenters

• Marial Quezada, The University of Texas at Austin

• Yvette Regalado, Texas State University

• Toni Moreno, Texas State University

• Patricia R Núñez, UT Austin

• Leticia Garza, University of Texas at Austin

• Ana Carrasco, University of Texas at Austin

• Eissa Gonzalez, San Antonio Independent School District

• Omar Serna, Texas Christian University