Latina Pedagogies of Care

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How Cario Can Give Tired Teachers Power and Hope

Despite decades of educational reform, many teachers and students still remain under-resourced and underserved. In this important new book, award-winning educators Ale Babino and Roco Almanza show how teachers can reclaim their humanity in a system that oscillates between toxic positivity and cynical despair by teaching with cario.

Despite decades of educational reform, many teachers and students still remain under-resourced and underservedacademically, materially, and spiritually. In this important new book, award-winning educators Ale Babino and Roco Almanza show how teachers can reclaim their humanity in a system that oscillates between toxic positivity and cynical despair with Latina Pedagagogies of Care, or teaching with cario.

Rooted in Latina/Chicana feminist wisdom, this book introduces seven liberatory principles that re-center teaching as an act of communal healing and transformative justice. With stories, dichos, and time-tested strategies, Babino and Almanza invite readers to name the pain of the herida abiertathe open wound of educational harmsand respond with care that re-humanizes and re-tools both students and their teachers. They offer actionable strategies you can try in your own classroom and in community connected to Latines’ voices and experiences so often sidelined in educational theory and practice.

Educators, teacher educators, and scholars alike will benefit from this books tender witness, personal testimony, and pedagogical tools. The authors join readers on their path toward a more wholehearted and honest teaching practice for themselves and the students they serve.