Empowering Students through Creative Resistance: Art-based Critical Pedagogy in the Immigrant Experience

This study displays the value of using art-based critical pedagogy, and the importance of developing the socio-political awareness of immigrant students. It shows the development of strong student-teacher relationships through culturally relevant cirriculums through shared socio-economic and cultural backgrounds. The article relates the author’s personal ongoing relationship as a high school teacher with a former undocumented student as a model and key to nurturing students’ identities and academic endeavors.