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Redefining the Work of Feminist Praxis: Making Space for a (Rebellious) Undergraduate Feminist Research Group
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Fahs, Breanne; Swank, Eric – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2020
This article traces the practices and outcomes of an undergraduate research group that began organically to foster research and activist collaborations in a small group setting and without the rubric of a structured course, formal lab setting, or formal institutional backing. We consider several outcomes of this group: (1) Graduate school entry…
Descriptors: Feminism, Praxis, Undergraduate Students, Student Research
The Praxis of Ethnic Studies: Transforming Second Sight into Critical Consciousness
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Cammarota, Julio – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2016
This article focuses on a youth participatory action research (YPAR) program called the Social Justice Education Project (SJEP) that fostered young people of color's critical consciousness. Their critical consciousness emerged through praxis (reflection/action) while focusing on preserving ethnic studies in Tucson, Arizona. Because the SJEP home…
Descriptors: Ethnic Studies, Praxis, Participatory Research, Action Research
Competing and Contested Discourses on Citizenship and Civic Praxis
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Koyama, Jill – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2017
In this paper, I utilize complementary features of critical discourse analysis (CDA) and Actor-Network Theory (ANT) to trace and investigate issues of power, materiality, and reproduction embedded within notions of citizenship and civic engagement. I interrogate the often narrow and conservative political and public discourses in Arizona that…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Network Analysis, Power Structure, Citizenship Education
Become History: Learning from Identity Texts and Youth Activism in the Wake of Arizona SB1070
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Paris, Django – International Journal of Multicultural Education, 2012
The title of this article comes from a poster in Pedro's Arizona classroom. The poster read, "The only violence in schools should be the kind you read about in history classes. Be smart. Don't become history." This message became increasingly salient to me while investigating Pedro's engagement with literacy. Using critical theory and…
Descriptors: Activism, Critical Theory, Literacy, Praxis
Teaching as a Healing Craft: Decolonizing the Classroom and Creating Spaces of Hopeful Resistance through Chicano-Indigenous Pedagogical Praxis
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Villanueva, Silvia Toscano – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2013
This paper builds upon the edict for self-determination in El Plan de Santa Barbara: a Chicano plan for higher education (1969), which calls for "strategic use of education," by placing value on needs of the community (La Causa, p. 9). For me, this passage translates into valuing needs of community-college students entering my classes…
Descriptors: Resistance (Psychology), Self Determination, Mexican American Education, Indigenous Knowledge
Guiding Educators to Praxis: Moving Teachers beyond Theory to Practice
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Castillo, Melissa J. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to explore and report on the impact of coaching as an embedded part of professional development has on teacher learning and practice in the context of educating English Language Learners (ELLs). A close examination was made of what teachers, coaches and principals believe to be effective professional development and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), English Language Learners, Coaching (Performance)