Authentic Carino
Transformative Schooling for Latinx Youth
Will be published approx. on 10. December 2021
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-8077-6632-3 (ISBN)
Description
As the population of Latinx students grows in U.S. public schools and our nation seeks to address systemic inequities, racism, and xenophobia, this counternarrative provides inspiration to those wishing to reinvigorate schools and build a more caring and just world. This book documents the innovative practices, successes, and struggles of a full-service community high school serving mostly low-income, Latinx youth in an economically depressed California city. Based on 4 years of qualitative research, the author examines how educators, families, and community members established and sustained a social justice school that immersed youth in authentic carino-a holistic blend of familial, intellectual, and critical care. By nurturing students' moral, social, personal, and academic development, the school produced college-bound graduates ready to be agents of change in their own lives and in their communities. This case study synthesizes and extends scholarship on color-conscious, healing-centered educational care and offers rich portrayals of praxis that illuminate how schools can equip marginalized youth to thrive. Book Features:
Advances a fully elaborated model that specifies three fundamental dimensions of care: familial, intellectual, and critical.
Provides an in-depth account of a high school that successfully institutionalized authentic carino schoolwide.
Advocates for "college and community readiness," conveying to students how additional schooling would enable them to become community change agents capable of contributing to collective uplift.
Offers insights into the structures, processes, and complications that arise when a school commits to authentic carino as a path to promote engaged learning and social transformation.
Shows what is possible when educators in partnership with local communities dare to care deeply and widely for Latinx youth.
Advances a fully elaborated model that specifies three fundamental dimensions of care: familial, intellectual, and critical.
Provides an in-depth account of a high school that successfully institutionalized authentic carino schoolwide.
Advocates for "college and community readiness," conveying to students how additional schooling would enable them to become community change agents capable of contributing to collective uplift.
Offers insights into the structures, processes, and complications that arise when a school commits to authentic carino as a path to promote engaged learning and social transformation.
Shows what is possible when educators in partnership with local communities dare to care deeply and widely for Latinx youth.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
508 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8077-6632-3 (9780807766323)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Marnie W. Curry is an associate researcher at the University of California-Santa Cruz.
Content
Contents
Foreword?Angela Valenzuela, PhD ?xi
Acknowledgments?xv
1.??Welcome to the Beautiful Struggle?1
Embracing Students With Authentic Carino From Day One?2
Why This Case Study Matters?5
What Does it Really Mean to Care??7
Authentic Carino?11
The Study?15
The School?17
Preview of Chapters?20
2.??Familial Carino: Deeply Knowing and Supporting Students?23
Familial Carino: Life-Affirming, Healing-Centered, and Authentic?25
Institutionalizing Familial Carino?27
Firewalks: Schoolwide Rituals That Exemplify Familial Carino?45
Tensions in Familial Carino?49
Closing Reflections?55
3.??Intellectual Carino: Cultivating Engaged Pensadoras?57
Intellectual Carino: Analytic, Responsive, and Rigorous?59
The Four Pillars of Intellectual Carino?60
Institutionalizing Intellectual Carino?68
Tensions in Intellectual Carino?92
Closing Reflections?96
4.??Critical Carino: Nurturing Strong Sociocultural Identities, Political Awareness, and Civic Engagement?97
Critical Carino: Political, Liberatory, and Humanizing?98
The Relation Between Critical Carino and Critical Pedagogy?102
Critical Carino Enacted?105
Institutionalizing Critical Carino?125
Tensions in Critical Carino?130
Closing Reflections?136
5.??Authentic Carino: Braiding Together Familial, Intellectual, and Critical Care?138
Weaving the Trenza of Authentic Carino: Understanding Authentic Carino's Prevalence at MHS?141
Ya Basta, Enough Is Enough: Authentic Carino Confronts Violence?148
Closing Reflections?160
Conclusion: Seguir Adelante-Moving Forward?163
Lessons From MHS?163
Challenges?166
Recommendations for Moving Forward?169
Closing Reflections?170
Appendix A: A Reflexive Recap of Research?171
Appendix B: Roster of MHS Certificated Staff With Biographic Detail?189
Appendix C: Roster of Prominent MHS Staff and Community Partners?191
Appendix D: Course Assessment Summary Sheets Distributed to Students?193
Appendix E: Classroom Observation Analysis Instruments and Their Constructs?197
Appendix F: Teacher Focus Group Protocol (Department)?201
Notes?203
References?211
Index?227
About the Author?237
Foreword?Angela Valenzuela, PhD ?xi
Acknowledgments?xv
1.??Welcome to the Beautiful Struggle?1
Embracing Students With Authentic Carino From Day One?2
Why This Case Study Matters?5
What Does it Really Mean to Care??7
Authentic Carino?11
The Study?15
The School?17
Preview of Chapters?20
2.??Familial Carino: Deeply Knowing and Supporting Students?23
Familial Carino: Life-Affirming, Healing-Centered, and Authentic?25
Institutionalizing Familial Carino?27
Firewalks: Schoolwide Rituals That Exemplify Familial Carino?45
Tensions in Familial Carino?49
Closing Reflections?55
3.??Intellectual Carino: Cultivating Engaged Pensadoras?57
Intellectual Carino: Analytic, Responsive, and Rigorous?59
The Four Pillars of Intellectual Carino?60
Institutionalizing Intellectual Carino?68
Tensions in Intellectual Carino?92
Closing Reflections?96
4.??Critical Carino: Nurturing Strong Sociocultural Identities, Political Awareness, and Civic Engagement?97
Critical Carino: Political, Liberatory, and Humanizing?98
The Relation Between Critical Carino and Critical Pedagogy?102
Critical Carino Enacted?105
Institutionalizing Critical Carino?125
Tensions in Critical Carino?130
Closing Reflections?136
5.??Authentic Carino: Braiding Together Familial, Intellectual, and Critical Care?138
Weaving the Trenza of Authentic Carino: Understanding Authentic Carino's Prevalence at MHS?141
Ya Basta, Enough Is Enough: Authentic Carino Confronts Violence?148
Closing Reflections?160
Conclusion: Seguir Adelante-Moving Forward?163
Lessons From MHS?163
Challenges?166
Recommendations for Moving Forward?169
Closing Reflections?170
Appendix A: A Reflexive Recap of Research?171
Appendix B: Roster of MHS Certificated Staff With Biographic Detail?189
Appendix C: Roster of Prominent MHS Staff and Community Partners?191
Appendix D: Course Assessment Summary Sheets Distributed to Students?193
Appendix E: Classroom Observation Analysis Instruments and Their Constructs?197
Appendix F: Teacher Focus Group Protocol (Department)?201
Notes?203
References?211
Index?227
About the Author?237