A few weeks before school began, I was sitting in the library working with other teachers on some projects. It was one of those easy summer workdays and you could tell because everyone was wearing shorts and t-shirts. We were working hard at preparing lessons for the upcoming year. We abruptly stopped our work when a large group of kids came in. They were a touring group of incoming freshmen and their guide was a senior. “Here you can see some of the teachers you might have next year… there’s Mr. Banks, an English teacher… Miss Tennant, a Theater Teacher… and Mr. Tirado, a Spanish Teacher…” I was taken a back, but I interrupted the guide, “Actually, I teach History.” The guide responds, “Oh, well, I just thought…” and he turned away and
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Critical Race Theory will provide useful perspectives, complexities in (Bell, 1987; Bronner, 2011; Martinez, 2014). I am specifically referring to the demands on finding power hierarchies may push my analysis to find problems and I plan to balance this with Foucault’s power ideas for greater exploration (Foucault, 1984). I don’t necessarily want to look for problems and engage in problem solving, but rather engage in conversation with my participants to discover how they perceive their schools and their struggles (Freire, 2000, Rose, 2015). Looking specifically at power will require me to use many tools to analyze the words and accounts of my participants and both Foucault and Critical Race Theory will allow me to do that with …show more content…
First, is the growth of Latino/as across is dramatically changing the US as they continue to grow at rapid rates across the nation which will have serious ramifications for the nation (Casselman, 2014; Roerink, 2015). The geographic distribution of Latino/as also challenges society as they have established new migration centers and patterns (Sokolowski, Antrop-González & Maldonado, 2010). This has had and will continue to transform he American landscape. Despite stories on the news about migration to the US and the problems of the undocumented migration, the changes within the Latino/a community present some interesting
Critical Race Theory will provide useful perspectives, complexities in (Bell, 1987; Bronner, 2011; Martinez, 2014). I am specifically referring to the demands on finding power hierarchies may push my analysis to find problems and I plan to balance this with Foucault’s power ideas for greater exploration (Foucault, 1984). I don’t necessarily want to look for problems and engage in problem solving, but rather engage in conversation with my participants to discover how they perceive their schools and their struggles (Freire, 2000, Rose, 2015). Looking specifically at power will require me to use many tools to analyze the words and accounts of my participants and both Foucault and Critical Race Theory will allow me to do that with …show more content…
First, is the growth of Latino/as across is dramatically changing the US as they continue to grow at rapid rates across the nation which will have serious ramifications for the nation (Casselman, 2014; Roerink, 2015). The geographic distribution of Latino/as also challenges society as they have established new migration centers and patterns (Sokolowski, Antrop-González & Maldonado, 2010). This has had and will continue to transform he American landscape. Despite stories on the news about migration to the US and the problems of the undocumented migration, the changes within the Latino/a community present some interesting