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Today's schools compartmentalize children and curriculum.
Standardization dictates curricular content and assessment,
narrowing the focus of classrooms and schools that serve diverse
populations from varied geographical backgrounds. Against the
backdrop of the western-derived, institutional framework of
schooling are cultural ways of knowing that are place-based,
holistic, experiential, and connected to oral storytelling. In the
current movement toward acknowledging and understanding cultural
knowledge, teacher education programs need to work in collaboration
with cultural communities, honoring traditions and epistemologies
and seeking to revitalize and sustain (Paris, 2012) language and
culture. Such initiatives inform the big picture of educational
reform and enrich mainstream university teacher education programs.
This book highlights the journeys, challenges and unfolding stories
of transformation that reside within university/community/school
partnerships focused on cultural and linguistic revitalization
through schooling.
This edited volume brings together voices of Latinx students,
teachers, teacher educators, and education allies in Latinx
communities to reveal ways in which today's sociopolitical context
has given rise to politically-sanctioned hateful anti-immigrant
rhetoric. Contributors--key stakeholders in the education of
immigrant Latinx children, youth, and college students--share how
this rhetoric has exacerbated existing systemic injustices on
K-Higher Education. They draw attention to counternarratives that
speak to leadership and strength of community. Our contributors
include high school and college students and faculty, community
organizers, and early career academics, whose voices are too often
underrepresented in academic conversations. This book highlights
professional and personal acts of courage, community organization,
and the transformation of students and educators who are stepping
into leadership roles to effect change. Understanding that teaching
and learning are political acts, we call all those vested in Latinx
communities to engage in small and large acts of agency to
collectively impact change in our K-Higher Education systems.
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