Despertando el Ser

Belinda Bustos Flores, Ph.D., is Professor and Associate Dean of Professional Preparation, Assessment, and Accreditation at The University of Texas at San Antonio. Her research focus includes teacher identity, efficacy, and beliefs. Flores was the recipient of the 2015 AERA Hispanic Research Issues SIG Elementary, Secondary, and Postsecondary Research Award.Ellen Riojas Clark, Ph.D., is Professor Emerita at The University of Texas at San Antonio. Her research examines self-concept, ethnic/cultural identity, gifted language minority students, teacher development, and efficacy. Clark was the recipient of the 2012 AERA Hispanic Research Issues SIG Elementary, Secondary, and Postsecondary Research Award.

• List of Figures – List of Tables – Antonia Darder: Foreword: Awaken my people!— ¡Coño 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 Saldaña: 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 Enseñar – 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 Treviño 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.

“As a professor of Chicana and Chicano studies, reading this book elucidated for me why I feel such profound joy and satisfaction teaching in my discipline. The connection and sense of awe I encounter in my students as they learn about themselves, their histories, and their communities, generates an affirmation of my own identity. As a Chicana, a woman, a citizen of this country, teaching is identity building both for my students and for me. This book will have a profound effect on all those who love teaching and could never quite articulate why. A must read for all levels of teaching.”—Aída Hurtado, Professor and Luis Leal Endowed Chair, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara