This article explores what culturally sustaining education means for Latinx students. Drawing on the concept of Latinidades, the authors suggest that culturally sustaining education for Latinx students necessitates problematizing the boundaries of this term altogether and making visible the tensions and multiple axes of oppression around what it means to be Latinx. They take inspiration from Latinx students—including one of the authors of this article—who are challenging bounded notions of culture (such as "affinity groups") and instead foregrounding questions about equitable practices in the day-to-day context of schools.
Research on Culturally Responsive Education (CRE) to date has mostly focused on identifying the aspects of education that already work for Black, Indigenous, and Students of Color. Building on this important literature base, this qualitative study examines the
implementation
, rather than the
identification
, of CRE practices. The seven New York City public schools that participated in the study were making school-wide changes for CRE as part of a program for Competency-Based Education (CBE) for personalizing learning for students. Both CRE and CBE are employed in schools to address common issues associated with educational inequities such as irrelevant lessons, teacher biases, one-size-fits-all instruction, and systemic racism. Based on interviews with teachers at the study schools, our findings demonstrated that teachers translated CRE theory into their CBE practice in three key ways: (1) deficit practices, where instructional choices were treated as neutral; (2) access practices, where instruction was differentiated but was not culturally responsive; and (3) transformative practices, where student agency challenged traditional structures. We argue that for schools and educators to meaningfully grapple with the issues of power they seek to address by engaging in CRE, they must embrace and nurture a more radical CRE imagination that leads to deeper school transformation.
This article is a review of the following video series: Kleyn, T. (2019). Supporting immigrants in schools. The City College of New York and the New York State Education Department. https://www.cunyiie.org/videos Kleyn, T. (Ed.). (2019). Supporting immigrants in schools: Resource Guide. The City College of New York and New York State Education Department. 54p. Available as download from https://cuny-iie.org/ .
Este artículo explora lo que significa “educación culturalmente sostenible” para las y los estudiantes latinxs. Basándose en el concepto de “latinidades”, las autoras sugieren que la educación culturalmente sostenible para las y los estudiantes latinxs requiere problematizar los límites de este término, y hacer visibles las tensiones y los múltiples ejes de opresión que existen en torno a lo que significa ser latinx. Esta investigación se inspira en estudiantes latinxs, incluida una de las autoras de este artículo, que desafían las nociones limitadas de cultura (como los “grupos de afinidad”) y, en cambio, levantan preguntas sobre prácticas equitativas en el contexto cotidiano de las escuelas.
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