Doing the public good : Latina/o scholars engage civic participation / edited by Kenneth P. González and Raymond V. Padilla.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

González, Kenneth P, 1968-

Padilla, Raymond V.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--Aims and objectives--United States.

Education, Higher.

Education, Higher--Aims and objectives.

United States.

Civics--Study and teaching--United States.

Civics.

Civics--Study and teaching.

Political participation--United States.

Political participation.

Hispanic American college teachers.

Physical Description:

viii, 164 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Sterling, Va. : Stylus Pub., 2008.

Summary:

How can scholarship reconnect with the civic mission of the university? That is the question that twelve senior and mid-career Latina/o scholars address in this book. While preparing students for active citizenship has always been an avowed mission of higher education, the growing commercialization of academe, and emphasis on narrow disciplinary and professional scholarship, have left many faculty unprepared to undertake, or engage their students in, civic roles and responsibilities.

Through the lenses of personal reflection and autoethnography-and drawing on such rich philosophical foundations as the Spanish tradition of higher learning, the holistic Aztec concept of education, the notion of bien educado, and the activist principles of the Chicano movement-these writers explore the intersections of private and public good, and how the tension between them has played out in their own lives and the commitments they have made to their intellectual community, and to their cultural and family communities. Through often lyrical memoirs, reflections, and poetry these authors recount their personal journeys and struggles-often informed by a spiritual connectedness and always driven by a concern for social justice-and show how they have found individual paths to promoting the public good in their classrooms, and in the world beyond.

Contents:

1 Latina/o Faculty Perspectives on Higher Education for the Public Good: An Intergenerational Approach / Kenneth P. Gonzalez, Raymond V. Padilla 1

2 RES Publica: Chicano Evolving Poetics of the Public Good / Raymond V. Padilla 13

3 Voces in Dialogue: What Is Our Work in the Academy? / Jennifer Ayala 25

4 Tres Hermanas (Three Sisters): A Model of Relational Achievement / Aida Hurtado, Maria A, Hurtado, Arcelia L. Hurcado 39

5 Two Brothers in Higher Education: Weaving a Social Fabric for Service in Academia / Miguel Guajardo, Francisco Guajardo 61

6 Agency and the Game of Change: Contradictions, Consciencia, and Self-Reflection / Luis Urriera Jr. 83

7 Toward Public Education as a Public Good: Reflections from the Field / Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner 97

8 For the Public Good: A Personal Reflection / Flora V. Rodriguez-Brown 113

9 In Search of Praxis: Legacy Making In the Aggregate / Kenneth P. Gonzalez 125

10 La Trenza de Identidades: Weaving Together My Personal, Professional, and Communal Identities / Dolores Delgado Bernal 135

11 Latina/o Cuentos Shape a New Model of Higher Education for the Public Good / Kenneth P. Gonzalez, Raymond V. Fadilla 149.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781579222628

1579222625

9781579222635

1579222633

OCLC:

137331467