Exploring Instructional Practices in a Spanish/English Bilingual Classroom Through Sitios y Lenguas and Testimonio

Romero, Gabriela; DeNicolo, Christina Passos; Fradkin, Claudia

doi:10.1007/s11256-016-0362-0

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“…Also, testimonios were used as a cultural, therapeutic intervention with Latino male adolescents in group therapy (Cervantes et al, 2018(Cervantes et al, , 2019 and have been described as a powerful healing tool when working with Latinx clients (Vazquez & Rosa, 2011). Outside of therapy, testimonios have been useful in urban classrooms (Cruz, 2012), with Latinx elementary students (Romero, DeNicolo, & Fradkin, 2016), during Chicana doctoral experiences (Espino et al, 2010), with undocumented ungraduate students (Romo, Allen, & Martinez, 2018), and with leadership in higher education (Martínez & Fernández, 2018).…”

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Testimonios.

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2020

Liberation Psychology: Theory, Method, Practice, and Social Justice.

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T o be a witness to a testimonio requires solidarity, humility, and empathy.Testimonios are "a verbal journey of a witness who speaks to reveal the racial, classed, gendered, and nativist injustices they have suffered as a means of healing, empowerment, and advocacy for a more human present and future" (Perez Huber, 2009, p. 644). Testimonios empower individuals from the margins or the subaltern experience to reclaim their voice and recognize their resiliency (Delgado Bernal, Burciaga, & Flores Carmona, 2012). Historically, the purpose of testimonios was to document oppressed experiences and, more important, to challenge oppressive conditions (Carrillo, Ender, & Perez, 2018). Those of us with marginalized and oppressed identities must find opportunities to recenter our experiences if we are to challenge racism, heterosexism, patriarchy, genderism, ableism, sizeism, and other "isms." The extent to which testimonios are salient for marginalized communities depends on the access and space provided for collaborative consciousness-raising and critical dialogue (Latina Feminist Group, 2001). In the absence of access to testimonios or areas to share them, the memories become more challenging and painful for individuals' personal, emotional, and experiential being (Delgado Bernal et al., 2012). We, as clinicians, must be the agents of change in how we offer therapeutic services from a culturally responsive manner.Given the empowerment premise of the genre, testimonios are a political approach that also incorporates cultural, social, historical, and political stories intersecting with an individual's life experience (Delgado Bernal et al., 2012). As our lived experiences continue to shape our being, we must recognize the Testimonios

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