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Despertando el Ser: Transforming Latino Teachers´ Identity, Consciousness, and Beliefs presents a theoretically grounded and research-based process in which the multiple facets of self are explored.

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This collection of essays presents a theoretically grounded and research-based process in which the multiple facets of self are explored. While these facets have been studied in the literature using universal theories, Despertando el Ser posits that it is important to generate our own epistemological understandings grounded in the lived experience of Latina/o educators. Moving away from majoritarian perspectives of teacher personal development, using a sociocultural and critical theory kaleidoscopic lens, this book critically examines the notion of Latino teacher identities and other facets of self. Despertando el Ser theorizes that a Latino teacher´s identity is an intersection between the personal and professional selves consisting of ethnic/cultural identities, consciousness, beliefs, and motives for teaching. Presented in Despertando el Ser is an awakening of self as an ethnic/cultural being, exploring positionality and consciousness, and unearthing our beliefs about learning and teaching. Using varied methodologies, this book provides chapters in which the facets of self are uncovered and explored within diverse educational contexts. Each chapter provides questions to assist the reader to engage in critical reflection. This book can be used for teacher candidates, teachers in practice, teacher educators, and researchers.

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List of Figures - List of Tables - Antonia Darder: Foreword: Awaken my people!- ­Co¤o despierta boricua! - Belinda Bustos Flores/Ellen Riojas Clark: Preface: Illuminating the Despertando el Ser Transformational Process - Acknowledgments - Belinda Bustos Flores/Ellen Riojas Clark: Despertando el Ser : Awakening the Ethnic Identity and Consciousness of Latino Teachers - Daniel Alejandro González/Ellen Riojas Clark: Porque soy lo que soy : Weaving a Theoretical Perspective to Understand Latino Teachers´ Identities and Positionalities - Lilliana Patricia Salda¤a: Mexican American Teachers: Transforming Educational Injustice Through Pedagogies of Lived Experience - Belinda Bustos Flores/Amalia Guirao: Cultivating Aspirantes´ Spanish Proficiency, Ethnolinguistic Identity, and Ideology - Belinda Bustos Flores/Lisa Santillán: Mí Concientización : Unraveling Aspirantes ´ Ideological Beliefs - Claudia Verdín/Lorena Claeys: Latina and Mexicana STEM Educators´ Concientización: Desenterrando los Motivos para Ense¤ar - Ellen Riojas Clark/Belinda Bustos Flores - Descubriendo el Ser : Metamorphic Journey for Becoming Culturally Efficacious - Lisa Santillán: Keepin´ It Real: Latino Teachers Enacting Cultural Transformation - Claudia Trevi¤o García: El Renacer De Maestras Bilingües : Exploring Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and Culturally Efficacious Dispositions - Ellen Riojas Clark/Belinda Bustos Flores: Así Seremos : Our Sabiduría as Actualization - Contributors - Index.

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