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Toward A Pedagogy Of Compassion: Extracting Principles Of Education From Teaching A High School Multicultural Literature Class, Carlos Roberto Valverde
Toward A Pedagogy Of Compassion: Extracting Principles Of Education From Teaching A High School Multicultural Literature Class, Carlos Roberto Valverde
LMU/LLS Theses and Dissertations
Based on the assumption by Cochran-Smith and Lytle (1993), educational scholars need insight on the “particulars” of what works for classroom teachers within the context of their own classrooms. This dissertation is a self-study that addresses my work as a high school Multicultural Literature teacher and the impact of how my own philosophical/theoretical belief system resulted in significant transformative learning experiences for students as demonstrated in their feedback.
Using intercultural competence, value-creation pedagogy, and compassion as theoretical frameworks that encourage greater social cohesion and collective participation, I used autoethnography as my primary method of investigation to treat data through an …