Date of Award
2019
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Education (Ed.D.)
Department
Educational Administration and Leadership
First Advisor
Rod Githens
First Committee Member
Ronald E. Hallett
Second Committee Member
Linda E. Skrla
Third Committee Member
Qingwen Dong
Abstract
Latinas represent a large proportion of the United States early care and education workforce, and thus have the potential to wield significant influence over the growth and development of millions of American children. However, the voices of Latina early childhood professionals often are missing in both research and mass media. Instead, social, political, and academic frames cast Latinas as foreign regardless of nationality, uneducated notwithstanding expertise, and passive despite action and influence. This testimonio analysis draws on Chicana feminist epistemology to re-center the perspectives of Latina child care providers and reveal more authentic insights on how they understand and perform their roles within the broader social contexts that define and delimit Latina identity in the United States. The collective account that emerges from their testimonios is one of straddling multiple borders: between influence and invisibility, between the personal and the professional, and between community and isolation.
Pages
144
Recommended Citation
Torres Siders, Jennifer. (2019). Early Care and Education Testimonios at the Borderlands. University of the Pacific, Dissertation. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/3577
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Chicana/o Studies Commons, Early Childhood Education Commons, Educational Administration and Supervision Commons, Educational Leadership Commons, Educational Methods Commons, Educational Sociology Commons, Latina/o Studies Commons
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