Personal Agency Inspired by Hardship: Bilingual Latinas as Liberatory Educators
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18251/ijme.v18i3.1145Keywords:
Latino/a education, critical race theory, teachers of color, paraeducators, recruitment & retentionAbstract
This qualitative multiple case study focused on eleven non-traditional, bilingual, Latinas within a teacher education program. The study explored various factors that influenced participants’ desire to pursue and ability to persist as pre-service teachers. The overarching theme identified among participant discourse was personal agency inspired by hardship. Findings indicated that, as a result of their cultural and experiential understandings, participants enacted culturally responsive teaching with their Latino/a students. Furthermore, participants demonstrated a strong sense of personal agency to improve the educational outcomes of culturally and linguistically diverse students and a desire to advocate specifically on behalf of English learner Latino/a students.Downloads
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2016-10-28
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Morales, A. R., & Shroyer, M. G. (2016). Personal Agency Inspired by Hardship: Bilingual Latinas as Liberatory Educators. International Journal of Multicultural Education, 18(3), 1–21. https://doi.org/10.18251/ijme.v18i3.1145
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