TCEP Brown Bag—PAR Entremundos/Between Worlds: A Pedagogy of Las Américas, by Dr. Julio Cammarota

TCEP Brown Bag

Thursday, April 5, 2018 

12-1:00PM

SZB 360A

University of Texas at Austin

Happening this Thursday.  Please bring your lunch and let's listen to Iowa State University Profesor Dr. Julio Cammarota speak on his co-edited book titled, PAR Entremundos/Between Worlds: A Pedagogy of Las Américas, with fellow co-editors Melissa Rivera,‎ Jennifer Ayala, Margarita I. Berta-Avila,‎ María Elena Torre,‎ and Louie F. Rodríguez.

He will speak on the Participatory Action Research (PAR) framework that he and his colleagues developed out of the their respective PAR projects that culminates in this volume.

Dr. Cammarota is returning to the University of Arizona in the fall after a relatively brief hiatus in Iowa.  I'm sure Arizona is happy to have him back. And we're happy to have him with us, too!

Open to the public. 

 -Angela Valenzuela

Critically Compassionate Intellectualism for Latina/o Students by Drs. Julio Cammarota & Augustine Romero

I strongly recommend this published piece in the journal, Multicultural Education, by Drs. Julio Cammarota & Augustine Romero that lays out their critique of K-12 schooling and their alternative approach applied to youth in the Tucson Unified School District (TUSD), namely, their Critically Compassionate Intellectualism Model of Transformative Education. 

Remember that this is the curricular approach advanced by the TUSD Mexican American Studies Program, leading to unexpectedly high levels of academic achievement, graduation rates, and college matriculation to the point that the Arizona State Superintendent disavowed the results from the Arizona-taxpayer-funded Cambium Report. 

Thanks to Stephen Lemon's June 16, 2011 blog in the Phoenix New Times, here is the link to the Cambium Report in five parts so that you can see for yourself the success of the TUSD program guide by these principles of critically compassionate intellectualism: Cambium One, Cambium Two, Cambium Three, Cambium Four, and Cambium Five.

This model, theoretically framed around what they describe in this piece as a trilogy, is elaborated as follows:

A teacher following critically compassionate intellectualism implements the educational trilogy of critical pedagogy (Freire, 1993), authentic caring (Valenzuela, 1999), and a social justice centered curriculum (Ginwright & Cammarota, 2002). For students of color, critical pedagogy affords them the opportunity to become critical agents of social and structural transformation. Authentic caring promotes student-teacher relationships characterized by respect, admiration, and love and inspires young Latinas/os to better themselves and their communities. A social justice curriculum dispels ideological notions of racial inferiority while cultivating the intellectual capacities of students of color.

Thankfully, the program is now legal in the wake of Judge Tashima's ruling on August 22, 2017 that you can read about here if you like.  

So little of education reform, I have noticed over the years, is about socially transformative curriculum and pedagogy even if this is what our children and youth desperately need—and for reasons that are well articulated by Cammarota and Romero in this article that  I encourage you to read in its entirety.

Angela Valenzuela

References

Freire, P. (1993). Pedagogy of the oppressed. New York: Continuum.

Ginwright, S., & Cammarota, J. (2002). New terrain in youth development: The promise of a social justice approach. Social Justice, 29(4), 82.

Valenzuela, A. (1999). Subtractive schooling: U.S.-Mexican youth and the politics of caring. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press

A Critically Compassionate Intellectualism for Latina/o Students: Raising Voices Above the Silencing in Our Schools

Cammarota, Julio; Romero, Augustine. Multicultural Education; San Francisco Vol. 14, Iss. 2,  (Winter 2006): 16-23.

Dr. Julio Cammarota

Dr. Augustine Romero

LatinX Students in Public Education Symposium: Ethnic Studies & Academic Succss—UTRGV-Brownsville Campus

Join us for this information session featuring keynote speaker:  Dr. Angela Valenzuela,  UT Austin and a workshop by: Dr. Julio Cammarota, Iowa State University

Monday, Oct. 10, 2016
8:45 a.m. – 5 p.m. UTRGV
Brownsville Campus
PlainsCapital Bank El Gran Salón

Brought to you by the Center for Mexican American Studies, the College of Education and P-16 Integration, and the Office for Student Involvement.

 #ethnicstudiesnow
#MASforTexas

Latinx Students in Public Education Symposium:
Ethnic Studies and Academic Success  

8:45am: Coffee & Pan Dulce

9:00am: Welcome
            Emmy Pérez, Interim Director, Center for Mexican American Studies

9:15am: Introductions of Guest Speakers

            Dr. Martiza De La Trinidad, History Department & MAS Affiliate Faculty

Keynote Speaker, Dr. Angela Valenzuela, UT Austin
            “The Past, Present and Future of Ethnic Studies: Prospects for Texas and the           Nation”

10:30am: Workshop

Dr. Julio Cammarota, Iowa State University

“The Social Justice Education Project: A Case Example of Youth Participatory Action Research in Ethnic Studies”

12pm: Luncheon 

1:00pm: Roundtable Discussion 

“Reject this Text: A Discussion about the Proposed Textbook Mexican American Heritage”

Introduction
            Dr. Francisco Guajardo, Director, B3 Institute

Discussion Facilitators

            Dr. Emilio Zamora, UT Austin
            Dr. Christopher Carmona, UTRGV

2:15pm: Presentation & Discussion
“Mexican American Studies in the Rio Grande Valley”
            Dr. Stephanie Alvarez, MAS Program UTRGV
            Valerie Cerda, MA candidate in MAS UTRGV
            Tania Chávez, Special Projects Coordinator, La Unión del Pueblo Entero
            Alejandro Sanchez, BA candidate in MAS UTRGV

3:30pm: Student Testimonios and writing from Dr. Julio Cammarota’s workshop

4:15pm-5pm: Closing Circle, Dr. Francisco Guajardo

Hosted by: CMAS: Center for Mexican American Studies

Sponsored by: CMAS, College of Education & P-16 Integration, the Office for Student Involvement, and LUCHA student organization

CMAS Symposium Planning Committee: Monica Alvarez, Stephanie Alvarez, Christopher Carmona, Valerie Cerda, Maritza De La Trinidad, George Díaz, Francisco Guajardo, Emmy Pérez, Yajaira Rivera, Arnulfo Segovia, and Amanda Tovar.

Thank you Jennifer Berghom, Yaribel Caraveo, Daniel Cardenas, Elisa Flores, Raul Leal, Dr. Patricia McHatton, Cindy Mata-Vasquez, Patricia Montemayor, Dalyn Ruiz, Cheryl Taylor, Edna Zambrano, Emilio Zamora, and all the public school students, teachers, and administrators in attendance.

For More Information: CMAS Staff: Yajaira Rivera or Valerie Cerda @ (956) 665-3212 or Emmy Pérez emmy.perez@utrgv.edu