When Stepping to College is Stepping to Consciousness: Critical Pedagogy, Transformational Resistance, and Community Building with Urban Latin@ and African American Youth

doi:10.4324/9780203866078-26

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When Stepping to College is Stepping to Consciousness: Critical Pedagogy, Transformational Resistance, and Community Building with Urban Latin@ and African American Youth

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ABSTRACT

In this chapter, we attempt to unite the conceptual frameworks of critical pedagogy (Darder, 1991; Duncan-Andrade & Morrell, 2008; Freire, 1970/2002) and transformational resistance (Solórzano & Delgado Bernal, 2001) to explore the ways teaching beliefs, practices, and curriculum can encourage transformational resistance among urban youth. Th e fi rst section of the chapter discusses the educational theory that guided the pedagogical practices discussed in the second section.