Open AccessResisting Invisibility through Creative Expressions: Immigrant Students and Families’ Voices and Actions
Author(s) -
Leticia Alvarez Gutiérrez,
Patricia D. Quijada Cerecer
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of family diversity in education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2325-6389
DOI - 10.53956/jfde.2018.137
Subject(s) - immigration , grassroots , invisibility , general partnership , sociology , gender studies , salt lake , pedagogy , political science , politics , physics , optics , law , paleontology , structural basin , biology
This study examines a grassroots effort to work collaboratively with a group of immigrant students, their families, and educators at an urban high school. Using PAR as a methodological tool, we explore how a group of high school students along with their families resist racial stigmatization and marginalization. These young people and families were part of a university intergenerational collective, Family School Partnership (FSP) that worked along-side teachers in an urban high school located in Salt Lake City, Utah. This article focuses on how PAR can be a pedagogical tool to support immigrant young people and their families as they resist oppressions in schools while offering teachers, pre-service teachers and graduate students unique preparation experiences for working with and learning from immigrant students.