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MEMOIR, MEMORY, MASTERY PRESENTATION

MI VOZ, MI VIDA, LATINO COLLEGE STUDENTS
TELL THEIR LIFE STORIES

Spencer N. Peck
 Mi Voz, Mi Vida,
Latino College Students
Tell Their Life Stories
INTRODUCTION by Andrew Garrod,
Robert Kilkenny,
and Christina
Gomez.
Connections.
"Multicultural education relates to education and instruction
designed for the cultures of several different races in an educational
system. This approach to teaching and learning is based upon
consensus building, respect, and fostering cultural pluralism within
racial societies. Multicultural education acknowledges and
incorporates positive racial idiosyncrasies into classroom
atmospheres" (Wilson, 1997).
 Q&A

WHAT VOICES RESONATED WITH YOU?

WHAT CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES DID THESE STUDENT FACES?
USING OUR READINGS AND DISCUSSIONS, WHAT WOULD AND COULD YOU DO TO ASSIST
THESE STUDENTS TO BE SUCCESSFUL SOCIALLY AND ACADEMICALLY?
Society

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 "My school tried hard to inculcate all of its students with
a sense of a larger world. It attempted to erase
considerations of color, nationality, and origin from our
mind, teaching us to see only the human in front of us. It
Conclusion was a curriculum for an ideal world, though in retrospect I
have to ask, whose ideal? For me, someone not in the
white majority, the message was essentially that who I was,
what I was, didn't matter and was not to be examined. My
school did not suppress who I was, but it did, however
subtly, teach me to neglect a part of myself" ( Alvarez, pg.
195, n.d.).
 References

Garrod, A., Kilkenny, R., & Gómez, C. (Eds.). (2007). Mi Voz, Mi Vida: Latino College Students
Tell Their Life Stories. Ithaca; London: Cornell University Press. Retrieved from
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctt7zbfx