Cimarron Pedagogies : Notes on Auto-ethnography as a Tool for Critical Education Paperback / softback

by Lidia Marte

Part of the Critical Studies of Latinxs in the Americas series

Paperback / softback

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Description

CimarrÃ³n Pedagogies is a testimonial account of how to use Critical Auto-Ethnography as main strategy for undergraduate research projects.

The pedagogical approach here shared is a form of marronage, that help us createâ€”at least in the classroom and for one semesterâ€”small liberated spaces, bridging the individual and the collective, private and public, past and present, the poetic and the political, and the local/global negotiations in our studentsâ€™ lives.

Researching the ground of studentâ€™s everyday experiences through their personal perspectives is a form of engaged pedagogy utilizing experiential, project-based and place-based assignments, as well as other experimental strategies.

Through an auto-ethnographic project the feminist phrase â€œthe personal is politicalâ€ is felt, not just pondered, researched and theorized, generating multiple insights and empowering students to create their own ways of liberation and to document their own cultural histories.

This auto-ethnographic narrative is an homage to teachers and mentors, and a celebration of life-long selfdirected learning as embodied in the authorâ€™s own educational roots and routes.

The book will be useful for college instructors and teachers as well as undergraduate and graduate students for diverse courses ranging from anthropology to the humanities.

The guide to the research project and the appendix are also useful for any reader interested in researching and documenting topics of significance to their local lives and to their communities.