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Learning in/through Everyday Resistance: A Cultural-Historical Perspective on Community Resources and Curriculum
Pacheco, Mariana
Educational Researcher, v41 n4 p121-132 May 2012
This essay addresses the value of leveraging the unique learning, thinking, and knowledge students develop in home-community spaces for school curriculum. The author explores "everyday resistance" to highlight a particular set of enacted political actions and practices in which students, families, and communities participate to negotiate the demands of their politically charged contexts. She draws on cultural-historical theoretical perspectives and employs Engestrom's notion of the double bind. She argues that as Latina/o youth develop coordinated challenges to particular social and educational policies, they engage in joint sense making, problem solving, and social analyses. Thus, she analyzes the cultural resources that are generated in/though everyday resistance in order to elaborate how these cultural resources can be leveraged in curriculum practices. (Contains 1 figure and 5 notes.)
Descriptors: Community Resources, Hispanic American Students, Constructivism (Learning), Resistance (Psychology), Ethnography, Learning Processes, Educational Strategies, Learning Strategies, Qualitative Research, Social Change, Social Influences, Educational Practices, Politics of Education, Cultural Context
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Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education; Higher Education
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Language: English
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