From Silence to Testimonio
Latina Adolescents’ Agency in Writing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21650221 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mónica Baldonado-Ruiz (0000-0001-7716-3463, San Diego State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 213-241 |
| Publication date | 2024-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Reading Behavior (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-4111 • E-ISSN: 1554-8430 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1086296x241269951 |
| OpenAlex | W4401523703 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 24 |
This qualitative classroom-based study investigated the writing practices, choices, and reflections of Latinx high school students during an instructional unit on writing testimonio. The study was grounded in a sociocultural theory of writing and draws from LatCrit and testimonio research to understand how writing about self as testimonio shapes the writing practices Latinx, urban mujeres. The study took place in an eleventh grade class at an urban charter school in a major urban center in the southwest. Data collection included writing samples, interviews, participant observer memos, and field notes. Analysis was conducted through a testimonio and narrative analysis lens and afforded researchers and participants the opportunity to co-construct the knowledge gained from the data corpus. Findings focused on the ways participants interacted with the study unit, how they found agency as writers, took pride in their writing, and ownership of the narratives of their communities
Grounded theory · Literature · Mathematics education · Narrative · Participant observation · Pedagogy · Political science · Pride · Qualitative research · Silence · Social science · Sociology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology
Testimonio
Whose culture has capital? A critical race theory discussion of community cultural wealth
Breaking Silence and Amplifying Voices
Silence as Shields
Defend yourself with words, with the knowledge that you’ve gained”
Teaching Through Testimonio
More than an English language learner
Learning and living pedagogies of the home
Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy
Cultural Ways of Learning
Commentary
Disrupting apartheid of knowledge
Chicana/LatinaTestimonios
Toward a Theory of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
Telling to Live
Agency as collectivity
Critical Race Theory, Latino Critical Theory, and Critical Raced-Gendered Epistemologies
Critical Race Methodology
Latina Mothers and Daughters
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |