Despertando el ser : transforming Latino teachers' identities, consciousness, and beliefs / edited by Belinda Bustos Flores and Ellen Riojas Clark.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Flores, Belinda Bustos, editor.

Clark, Ellen Riojas, editor.

Series:

Critical studies of Latinos/as in the Americas ; v. 11.

Critical Studies of LATINOS/AS, in the Americas, 2372-6822 ; Vol. 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hispanic American teachers--Psychology.

Hispanic American teachers.

Hispanic Americans--Ethinc identity.

Hispanic Americans.

Identity (Psychology).

Psychology.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 201 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang, [2017]

Summary:

This collection of essays presents a theoretically grounded and research-based process in which the multiple facets of self are explored. While these facets have been studied in the literature using universal theories, Despertando el Ser posits that it is important to generate our own epistemological understandings grounded in the lived experience of Latina/o educators. Moving away from majoritarian perspectives of teacher personal development, using a sociocultural and critical theory kaleidoscopic lens, this book critically examines the notion of Latino teacher identities and other facets of self. Despertando el Ser theorizes that a Latino teacher's identity is an intersection between the personal and professional selves consisting of ethnic/cultural identities, consciousness, beliefs, and motives for teaching. Presented in Despertando el Ser is an awakening of self as an ethnic/cultural being, exploring positionality and consciousness, and unearthing our beliefs about learning and teaching. Using varied methodologies, this book provides chapters in which the facets of self are uncovered and explored within diverse educational contexts. Each chapter provides questions to assist the reader to engage in critical reflection. This book can be used for teacher candidates, teachers in practice, teacher educators, and researchers. Book jacket.

Contents:

Foreword : despertando el ser / Antonia Darder

Preface : illuminating the despertando el ser transformational process / Belinda Bustos Flores and Ellen Riojas Clark

Despertando el ser : awakening the ethnic identity and consciousness of latino teachers / Belinda Bustos Flores and Ellen Riojas Clark

Porque soy lo que soy : weaving a theoretical perspective to understand Latino teachers' identities and positionalities / Daniel Alejandro González and Ellen Riojas Clark

Mexican American teachers : transforming educational injustice through pedagogies of lived experience / Lilliana P. Saldaña

Cultivating aspirantes' Spanish proficiency, ethnolinguistic identity and ideology / Belinda Bustos Flores and Amalia Guirao

Mí concientización : unraveling aspirantes' beliefs / Belinda Bustos Flores and Lisa Santillán

Latina and Mexicana STEM educators' concientización : desterrando los motivos para enseñar / Claudia Verdín and Lorena Claeys

Descubriendo el ser : metamorphic journey towards becoming culturally efficacious / Ellen Riojas Clark and Belinda Bustos Flores

Keepin' it real : Latino teachers enacting cultural transformation / Lisa Santillán

Así seremos : our sabiduría as a transformational process / Ellen Riojas Clark and Belinda Bustos Flores.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781433133664

1433133660

9781433133671

1433133679

OCLC:

1000526896

Publisher Number:

99974779024