ERIC Number: EJ750564
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006
Pages: 19
Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: ISSN-0882-4843
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Making the Connection: Extending Culturally Responsive Teaching through Home(land) Pedagogies
Norton, Nadjwa E. J.; Bentley, Courtley C.
Feminist Teacher: A Journal of the Practices, Theories, and Scholarship of Feminist Teaching, v17 n1 p52-70 2006
This article focuses on the findings of two multicultural feminist critical researchers who research with, for, and about Puerto Rican and Dominican youth and children. Across the research, participants developed peer structures, challenged school pedagogies, and maintained relationships with teachers. The authors present the article in two sections. First, they trace the theoretical underpinnings for home(land) pedagogies as critical spiritual practices through an exploration of Latina feminists' theorizing of "educacion," family pedagogies, "la facultad," and "lo cotidiano." Second, they present the stories of the researchers and their participants. Within these two presentations, the authors outline the ways that participants draw on home(land) pedagogies to: (1) actively critique, restructure, and fight against inequitable pedagogical school structures; (2) create means of survival and identities of successful students; and (3) affirm and support their cultures and the cultures of other Latina/o children, in particular the Spanish language, in schools.
Descriptors: Puerto Ricans, Latin Americans, Hispanic Americans, Cultural Pluralism, Feminism, Peer Relationship, Quality of Life, Experience, Culturally Relevant Education, Resistance (Psychology), Power Structure, Traditionalism, Educational Practices, Religious Factors, Grade 1, Subcultures, Spanish Speaking, Immigrants, Teaching Methods
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education; Grade 1
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Language: English
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