Inter-Mediando Identidades: Mediating Identities in the Exploration of Latina Children's Literature through Drama

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Main Author:	Medina, Carmen Liliana
Language:	English
Published:	The Ohio State University / OhioLINK 2000
Subjects:	Education
Online Access:	http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392916524

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spelling	ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-osu13929165242021-08-03T06:22:23Z Inter-Mediando Identidades: Mediating Identities in the Exploration of Latina Children's Literature through Drama Medina, Carmen Liliana Education Theories on multicultural education call for pedagogical strategies that invite students to engage in a critical inquiry of the meaning and implications of living in a diverse and pluralistic society (Nieto, 1996; Banks, 1995). However, the development of pedagogical practices that serve the purposes of multicultural education is a complex undertaking.Among the historically under and misrepresented groups within the school curriculum is the Latino/a community. In order to better understand the complexities of Latino/a community and identity in the classrooms, the curriculum has to be perceived in a “transformative approach” where like Banks (1994) suggested “[t]he structure of the curriculum is changed to enable students to view concepts, issues, events, and themes from the perspective of diverse ethnic and cultural groups” (p. 25). This qualitative study had two major purposes. First is to provide a better understanding of the way a Puerto Rican/Latina participant/researcher presents and studies literature written by Latinas with fifth graders. Second, it also looks at how students engage in the process of critically studying, interpreting and mediating literature written by Latinas.The first part of this study analyzed and situated the book Friends from the other side/Amigos del otro lado (1993) by Chicana writer Gloria Anzaldua using Latina feminist literary theories to connect this piece of literature for children to the larger field of Latina literary criticism. This framework provided me as a researcher, with a better understanding of the complexity of identities, meanings and locations of being Latina and how these are portrayed by Latina authors of children's literature.The second part of this study explores fifth grade children’s responses to Friends from the Other Side/Amigos del otro lado (1993) by Gloria Anzaldua. The purpose of this classroom study was to understand how I, as a Puerto Rican/Latina participant/researcher facilitated the book and studied how the students and I locate, inter-related and mediated our identities within this representation of Latina literature. Drama in education strategies were used as the main tool to engage in a critical and creative reflection of some of the aspects and meanings of being Latina and how we relate and make meaning of those aspects. 2000 English text The Ohio State University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392916524 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392916524 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws.
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Inter-Mediando Identidades: Mediating Identities in the Exploration of Latina Children's Literature through Drama

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