Seeking Educational Self-Determination: Raza Studies for Revolutionстатья из журнала
Аннотация: This article is a multi-textured effort to explain the educational, social justice work of MAESTR@S,1 an innovative, organic group of educational activists fighting to address the needs of Latina/o youth. It is unlike anything we have ever written and probably unlike anything you are likely to read in an academic journal such as Equity & Excellence in Education. We do not have a well-defined result that we are reporting to you. Instead, we see ourselves on a quest, with a deep concern about the current educational choices facing most raza2 youth and their teachers, and a commitment to try to work in community with others who share these concerns. MAESTR@S itself is also unlike other educational organizations. Our focus is on developing and demonstrating processes for engaging in revolutionary education. We are continually striving to eliminate conventional approaches to schooling and replace them with models that emerge from a new consciousness; one that many of us have not even fully imagined yet. This process of conscientizacion3 is an integral part of the learning environment we are trying to create in our work and in this piece. MAESTR@S demands a great deal of its participants and in this article we similarly demand a great deal of our readers. Because our work is completely processoriented4 and grounded in the specificities of each context in which we find ourselves, it is difficult to translate into a written end product. In the workshops we coordinate, we seek subversion of the values and norms of conventional classrooms—teacher-centered, monocultural, irrelevant, objective and unconcerned with social justice—and disruption of conventional “education’’ and the passivity and conformity it demands and breeds. This article strives toward the same objective. We ask
Год издания: 2002
Издательство: Taylor & Francis
Источник: Equity & Excellence in Education
Ключевые слова: Diverse Education Studies and Reforms, Critical Race Theory in Education, Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
Другие ссылки: Equity & Excellence in Education (HTML)
UNM’s Digital Repository (University of New Mexico) (PDF)
UNM’s Digital Repository (University of New Mexico) (HTML)
UNM’s Digital Repository (University of New Mexico) (PDF)
UNM’s Digital Repository (University of New Mexico) (HTML)
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Том: 35
Выпуск: 3
Страницы: 276–292