La Lotería as Creative Resistance: Critical Education and Home Knowledge in Classroom Spaces
For Teachers
ONLINE ONLY
This is a past event
Dr. Luis-Genaro Garcia shares how classroom educators can draw on students' familial and cultural knowledge as assets for their social consciousness and academic development through the game of La Lotería. He will provide classroom tools and resources to help educators develop culturally relevant and interdisciplinary teaching practices that examine issues of race, class, and gender in our communities.
A discussion and Q&A with Dr. Garcia will follow, at 6:00 p.m. PST.
Dr. Luis-Genaro Garcia is an artist, scholar, and was a high school art teacher in South Central Los Angeles for 14 years, influenced by critical education theory. As an educator, Dr. Garcia draws on the arts and students' socio-political, cultural, and communal knowledge as a tool for social consciousness and transformation, and to spotlight the social and political barriers (past and present) that exist in marginalized communities. He is currently an assistant professor of art education at Sacramento State University, closely working with communities through community-engaged practices.