Reclaiming our Dominicanidad : an exploracion of literacidad critica by bilingual and transnational youth / Laura del Pilar Peynado Castro.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Peynado Castro, Laura del Pilar, author.

Contributor:

Campano, H. Gerald, degree supervisor.

University of Pennsylvania. Department of Educational Leadership, degree granting institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational leadership.

Latin American studies.

Educational leadership--Penn dissertations.

Penn dissertations--Educational leadership.

Local Subjects:

Educational leadership.

Latin American studies.

Educational leadership--Penn dissertations.

Penn dissertations--Educational leadership.

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 pages)

Contained In:

Dissertations Abstracts International 82-12A.

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] : University of Pennsylvania ; Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Summary:

Dominicans comprise the fifth largest Hispanic group in the United States and the largest immigrant group in New York City. Yet the intersected experiences and practices of Dominican youth, like many other immigrant groups, remain invisible in the field of research. To help address this gap, this inquiry community exploration delved into the fluid and complex interconnectedness between the literacy practices and experiences of transnational and bilingual Dominican youth who move in and across different cultural, social, physical, and linguistic spaces. More specifically, this study explored what happens when transnational and bilingual Dominican youth were invited to participate in an inquiry community to investigate their literacies. As these transnational and bilingual youth applied and developed their critical literacy practices using an inquiry community model, new understandings emerged that included a critical expansion of our understanding of text that extends beyond the written and spoken word to include performances of the body and other semiotic representations of text. The co-creations and critical inquiry process generated by this qualitative inquiry community exploration helped conceptualize, communicate, and connect students' knowledge in relation to current understandings of literacy development and practices, and the role that schooling can play in their own literacy development. This process also resulted in co-creations related to the youth's reclaiming of their Dominicanidad in ways that can help better understand human experiences and ways humans travel within and across various contexts, and expand our presumptions around intersectional issues that include race, class, gender, sexuality, and the transnational experience. Furthermore, this inquiry community journey helped identify relevant implications for research methodologies involving immigrant students who are subject to intersectional dynamics in ways that recognize and build on their multifaceted, generative, and fluid identities, experiences, and critical literacies.

Notes:

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-12, Section: A.

Advisors: Campano, H. Gerald; Committee members: Vivian Gadsden; Maria Paula Ghiso.

Department: Educational Leadership.

Ed.D. University of Pennsylvania 2021.

Local Notes:

School code: 0175

ISBN:

9798516083068

Access Restriction:

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