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El Triunfo Del Amor: Selecciones De Poesia Amorosa De-Y Para-La Comunidad, Sara Soledad Garcia

Teacher Education

Este epigrafe, mas algunas otras ideas de la autora, me han inspirado para la breve presentación interpretativa de la siguiente selección de poemas, anticipo del libro sobre este tema, Eclipse and Umbras Love Poems by Chicanas and Friends, que preparo en colaboración con Bernice Zamora. Varios de las/ os poetas representados somos autores no profesionales a quien la poesia se nos impuso en una circunstancia concreta de nuestras vidas. De aqui que el contenido, en muchos de estos poemas, desborda a la forma pues presupone una intertextualidad basada en la interacción de contenidos, y no de formas, de un fondo …

Self Narrative And The Process Of Inquiry In Teacher Development: Living And Working In Just Institutions, Sara Soledad Garcia

Teacher Education

Historically the cultures of certain ethnic groups in the United States have been rendered invisible in school pedagogy. New stipulations for credentialing in California, however, require teachers to reflect critically upon the meaning of cultural difference, including their own thinking and lived experience as well as the lives, backgrounds, and cultural history ofthe children they teach. To be effective in culturally diverse classrooms, teachers must confront certain contradictions in their own identity. Most teacher candidates have shaped their identity according to a set of mainstream values and beliefs that has denigrated cultural difference. The personal confrontation with difference and self-identity …

Beyond Burritos And Lumpia: Ethnic Identity As A Difference In Preservice Teacher Education, Sara Soledad Garcia, E. Litton

Teacher Education

Teachers play a pivotal role in society. On a daily basis they influence the futures of the children they encounter. Not only do they teach children how to read and write butteachers are also charged with the task of creating responsible citizens who should think critically about society. Teacher educators, and specifically those individuals charged with the task of preparing preservice teachers, have responsibilities similar to teachers in the field. Education, on any level, ought to be a transformative process.

Thus, the preparation of teachers as instruments of social change ought to be a central focus in preservice teacher education …