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How The Chameleon Overcame Its Complex: Engage And The Formation Of A Prefigurative Social Movement, Philip W. Mangis Jan 2011

How The Chameleon Overcame Its Complex: Engage And The Formation Of A Prefigurative Social Movement, Philip W. Mangis

Master's Capstone Projects

U.S. students who participate in justice-oriented study abroad programs face great challenges reintegrating to life in the United States. In addition to working through culture shock, these students ultimately confront the dilemma of putting into practice a newfound transformed worldview that runs counter to hegemonic norms. Faced with the challenge of negotiating this dissonance, students can choose to blend in and conform to the status quo while struggling internally with their un-actualized perspective transformation – like a chameleon with a complex – or they can find ways to resist assimilation by acting on their transformation and taking action in the …


Compartiendo Nuestras Historias: Five Testimonios Of Schooling And Survival, Wanda Alarcón, Cindy Cruz, Linda Guardia Jackson, Linda Prieto, Sandra Rodriguez-Arroyo Jan 2011

Compartiendo Nuestras Historias: Five Testimonios Of Schooling And Survival, Wanda Alarcón, Cindy Cruz, Linda Guardia Jackson, Linda Prieto, Sandra Rodriguez-Arroyo

Teacher Education Faculty Publications

This storytelling begins with a positioning of why and how we use testimonio as part of a larger project of social justice and transformative pedagogies. In this collective testimonio, 5 working-class Latina scholars tell the stories of their struggles to overcome the challenges of language and assimilation, of gender discrimination and racism, of the violence of patriarchy, and of the experience of being treated as an “alien” in one's own country.