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The Internal Power Of Chican@/Latin@ Youth, Marisol Ruiz, Lilia Chavez
The Internal Power Of Chican@/Latin@ Youth, Marisol Ruiz, Lilia Chavez
Humboldt Journal of Social Relations
This is a qualitative study conducted by two researchers who engaged with Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR). Researchers worked together to illuminate the process youth went through as they engaged in YPAR. Researchers uncovered that youth went through an external process (community awareness, discoveries, and creation) and internal process (internal conflict, discoveries, motivation) as they engaged in YPAR. This study documents how youth empower them-selves by engaging in YPAR through the sharing of their testimonio, accessing/acknowledging a nepantlá state, and finding their internal power through conocimiento and reaching a holistic healing space.
Opening Up Information Literacy: Empowering Students Through Open Pedagogy, Erin Fields, Adair Harper
Opening Up Information Literacy: Empowering Students Through Open Pedagogy, Erin Fields, Adair Harper
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Innovative Pedagogy
Open pedagogy and critical information literacy are influenced by critical pedagogy, which advocates for a disruption of information authority and privilege in the classroom and the creation of an environment that empowers students to be equal participants in their own learning. With the open education movement and the affordances of networked technologies, open pedagogy has the potential to enable students to be active co-creators of knowledge, engaging in information literacy practices of finding, analyzing, and sharing knowledge. Moving beyond an individualistic skills-based approach to information literacy, open pedagogy provides students with opportunities to not only reflect on their understanding of …