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Designing Critical and Creative Learning with Indigenous Youth

A Personal Journey

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  • © 2016

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Authors:
  1. Donna DeGennaro

    1. Founder and Director of Unlocking Silent Histories, Austin, USA

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  • This book creates an innovative pedagogy that cultivates a self-directed, technology enabled learning design.
  • It strives to empower indigenous youth to be agents of their culture.
  • It strives to empower indigenous youth to be agents of language preservation and revitalization.

Part of the book series: Bold Visions in Educational Research (BVER)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Situating Struggle, an Academic Journey

    • Donna DeGennaro
    Pages 1-9

  3. Founding Unlocking Silent Histories

    • Donna DeGennaro
    Pages 11-25

  4. Theoretical Foundations

    • Donna DeGennaro
    Pages 27-38

  5. Situating Guatemala and Our Initial Communities

    • Donna DeGennaro
    Pages 39-55

  6. Personal Journal, February 2013

    • Donna DeGennaro
    Pages 57-59

  7. Carmen Tzoc Portillo, 17 Chirijox, Nahualá

    • Donna DeGennaro
    Pages 61-82

  8. Personal Journal, March 2013

    • Donna DeGennaro
    Pages 83-86

  9. Emilio Tzoc Portillo, 13 Chirijox, Nahualá

    • Donna DeGennaro
    Pages 87-101

  10. Personal Journal, February 2013

    • Donna DeGennaro
    Pages 103-106

  11. Catali na Nacasia, 13 and Fabiola Tambriz, 14 Chirijox, Nahualá

    • Donna DeGennaro
    Pages 107-125

  12. Personal Journal, June 2014

    • Donna DeGennaro
    Pages 127-131

  13. Jose Maria Perez Vasquez (Chema, Chino), 17 San Juan La Laguna

    • Donna DeGennaro
    Pages 133-146

  14. Personal Journal, May 2014

    • Donna DeGennaro
    Pages 147-150

  15. Norma Mendoza, 18 San Juan La Laguna “Temascales”

    • Donna DeGennaro
    Pages 151-163

  16. Personal Journal, June 2014

    • Donna DeGennaro
    Pages 165-167

  17. Carlos Agustin Vasquez Mendoza (Tín), 18 San Juan La Laguna “Exito”

    • Donna DeGennaro
    Pages 169-191

  18. Personal Journal, August 2014

    • Donna DeGennaro
    Pages 193-196

  19. Owning Unlocking Silent Histories Becoming Teacher|Leader

    • Donna DeGennaro
    Pages 197-214

  20. Looking Back, Looking Forward

    • Donna DeGennaro
    Pages 215-230
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About this book

Designing Critical and Creative Learning with Indigenous Youth: A Personal Journey traces the events leading to the creation of Unlocking Silent Histories (USH) and outlines the program’s foundational and methodological principles. The book opens with an explanation of the author’s struggles with the theory-practice tension, a conflict that has inhibited the widespread adoption and actualization of socially just learning engagements. She then offers her rationale for taking a leave from academia to concentrate fully on developing a critical pedagogy-informed learning design facilitated by combining community-connected inquiry with video ethnography. The substance of the text focuses on the identified foundational and methodological principles, explained through first-hand accounts of USH’s year-one participants. These youth-centered chapters assist in presenting an argument for employing culturally responsive and socially just educational engagements. At the same time, the chapters illustrate how drawing on youth voice can more broadly contribute to bridging theory and practice in communities that are often disconnected from the larger educational discourse. The author does not intend to provide a scripted implementation process within USH or of educational in general. Rather she uses first-hand youth accounts in this cultural context to give the reader a lived experience of how a youth-directed, emergent learning path materializes when employing a model that draws on local knowledge and invite youth voice.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Founder and Director of Unlocking Silent Histories, Austin, USA

    Donna DeGennaro

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Designing Critical and Creative Learning with Indigenous Youth

  • Book Subtitle: A Personal Journey

  • Authors: Donna DeGennaro

  • Series Title: Bold Visions in Educational Research

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-307-0

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-307-0Published: 13 April 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: CCXXX, 8

  • Topics: Education, general

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