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Empowering Students through Creative Resistance: Art-based Critical Pedagogy in the Immigrant Experience
- Diálogo
- Center for Latino Research, DePaul University
- Volume 18, Number 2, Fall 2015
- pp. 139-149
- 10.1353/dlg.2015.0037
- Article
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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.