Latinx Curriculum Theorizing

This book is a collection of empirical scholarship on curriculum connected to the Latinx diaspora from three perspectives: curriculum as content/subject matter; curriculum for schools' goals, objectives, and purposes; and curriculum as autobiography.

List of contents

Prologue

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Section One: Latinx Curriculum and Content/Subject Matter

Chapter 1: Insurrection and the Decolonial Imaginary at Academia Cuauhtli: The Liberating Potential of Third Space Pedagogies in a Third Space, Angela Valenzuela

Chapter 2: "To Serve the People": Transformational Praxis of the Chicago Young Lords, Ann Aviles, Richard Benson, and Erica Davila

Chapter 3: Mathematics for Borderland Identities, Cristina Valencia Mazzanti and Martha Allexsaht-Snider

Section Two: Latinx Curriculum in Schools: Addressing Goals, Objectives, and Purposes

Chapter 4: Southern Latinxs: Toward a Curricular Epistemology of Dissent and Possibility, Juan F. Carrillo and Lucia I. Mock Muñoz de Luna

Chapter 5: "Illegality" and the Curriculum: Making New Civics with Undocumented Activists, Jesús A. Tirado

Chapter 6: Radical Literacy: Building Curriculum on Mexican American Youth's Lived Experiences, Stacy Saathoff

Section Three: Latinx Currere, Latinx Curriculum as Autobiographical

Chapter 7: Conocimientos Míos: Engaging Possibilities for School Curriculum, Alba Isabel Lamar and Lynette DeAun Guzmán

Chapter 8: "Un Puño de Tierra": Curriculum and Pedagogy Theorizing Along the U.S./Mexico Border, Ganiva Reyes

Chapter 9: Currere from the Borderlands: An Exercise in Possibilities for Latinx Transgender Visibility, Mario Itzel Suárez

Epilogue

About the Authors

About the author

Edited by Theodorea Regina Berry; Mariela Rodríguez and Crystal A. Kalinec Craig - Contributions by Martha Allexsaht-Snider; Ann M. Avilés; Richard D. Benson II; Juan F. Carrillo; Erica R. Dávila; Lynette Guzmán; Alba Isabel Lamar; Cristina Valencia Mazza

Summary

This book is a collection of empirical scholarship on curriculum connected to the Latinx diaspora from three perspectives: curriculum as content/subject matter; curriculum for schools’ goals, objectives, and purposes; and curriculum as autobiography.

Product details

• Authors: Theodorea Regina Rodriguez Berry
• Assisted by: Theodorea Regina Berry (Editor), Berry Theodorea Regina (Editor), Crystal A. Kalinec Craig (Editor), Mariela Rodriguez (Editor), Mariela Rodríguez (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.04.2023
• EAN: 9781498573825
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-7382-5
• No. of pages: 186
• Series: Race and Education in the Twenty-First Century
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Teaching materials, hand-outs; EDUCATION / Inclusive Education, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, EDUCATION / Curricula, Educational strategies & policy, Curriculum planning & development, Educational strategies and policy: inclusion, Inclusive education / mainstreaming, Educational strategies and policy, Curriculum planning and development, Latina;Latino