Raza studies : the public option for educational revolution /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, [2014]
Description:	xxi, 202 pages ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Tucson Unified School District (Pima County, Ariz.) Tucson Unified School District (Pima County, Ariz.) Mexican American children -- Education -- Arizona -- Tucson. Mexican Americans -- Study and teaching -- Arizona -- Tucson. Critical pedagogy. Critical pedagogy. Mexican American children -- Education. Mexican Americans -- Study and teaching. Arizona -- Tucson.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9918236

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Other authors / contributors:	Cammarota, Julio, editor of compilation. Romero, Augustine, editor of compilation.
ISBN:	9780816530793 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0816530793 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"The well-known and controversial Mexican American studies (MAS) program in Arizona's Tucson Unified School District set out to create an equitable and excellent educational experience for Latino students. This book offers the first comprehensive account of this progressive program by those who created it, implemented it, and have struggled to protect it"--

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
Foreword: Committing to Struggle in Troubling Times
Preface: Revolutionary Education in Tucson
Introduction: Paulo Freire in Raza Studies
1. Critically Compassionate Intellectualism: The Pedagogy of Barriorganic Intellectualism
2. Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics: The Impact of Mexican American Studies Classes
3. The Battle for Educational Sovereignty and the Right to Save the Lives of Our Children
4. Self-inflicted Reductio ad Absurdum: Pedagogies and Policies of the Absurd in the State of Arizona
5. "When You Know Yourself You're More Confident": Resilience and Stress of Undergraduate Students in the Face of Anti-Ethnic Studies Bills
6. The Social Justice Education Project-Youth Participatory Action Research in Schools
7. Encuentros with Families and Students: Cultivating Funds of Knowledge through Dialogue
8. Researching the Institute for Transformative Education: Critical Multicultural Education in an Embattled State
9. Deconstructing the Doublethink Aimed at Dismantling Ethnic Studies in Tucson
10. Expanding on Freire: Enriching Critical Pedagogy with Indigenous Theory toward a Pedagogy of Humanization
Contributors
Index

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