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Publication Date: 2014
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Examining Transcultural Spiritual Literacies among Latino Children through Artifactual Mediations
Peñalva, Stacy Lee; Coggin, Linda Skidmore; Medina, Carmen L.
Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, v8 n2 p92-107 2014
Although the notion of cultural capital (Bourdieu, 1986) has been well studied and affirmed as important in recognizing the strengths of children and developing inclusive pedagogical models (Albright & Luke, 2008), this article presents a study of transcultural spiritual literacy--an element of cultural capital that is often overlooked, seldom studied in an organized fashion (Smith & Osborn, 2007, p. 23), and rarely validated in pedagogical inquiry as a vital indicator of children's meaning-making. However, this important form of cultural capital threads through the lives of children who participated in this study, which provided a "multi-modal ethnographic gaze" (Rowsell, 2011, p. 335) of spiritual literacies of 14 children from first-generation immigrant Latino families at a U.S. church-affiliated community center. This article, which discusses part of that study, will focus on the artifactual mediations of one of those children: Paulina. Spirituality, although not synonymous with religion in our study, overlaps with religion in both space and ideology, and surround issues including identity, transcultural navigations, and sociocritical perspectives and understandings.
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, Literacy, Ethnography, Immigrants, Church Programs, Community Centers, Spiritual Development, Religion, Self Concept, Biculturalism, Females, Parent Child Relationship, Biblical Literature, Qualitative Research
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