Aragon - Family History Podcast

Learning things about my family history that I never thought to ask!

References

Katie Johnston-Goodstar & Ross VeLure Roholt (2017): “Our Kids Aren’t Dropping Out; They’re Being Pushed Out”: Native American Students and Racial Microaggressions in Schools, Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work, DOI: 10.1080/15313204.2016.1263818

(My father shares some examples of microaggressions, like when a store worker ignored and refused to help my Grandma Martinez)

Ruchi Agarwal-Rangnath (2013): “Social Studies, Literacy, and Social Justice in the Common Core Classroom”: A Guide for Teachers, Teacher’s College Press, ISBN: 978-0-8077-5408-5

(You see an example of my father, as a child, attempting to connect his prior knowledge to his learning, as described in Chapter 5 of the book, Social Studies, Literacy, and Social Justice in the Common Core Classroom - Connecting Past to Present - he described that he’s good as deductive reasoning, which sometimes brought to light the holes in knowledge that are created by a history he was taught in school - which was only about white americans. For example, as a child he wondered if white/ Engligh people “Discovered all these places, why do they have Spanish names?”)

Mary Cowhey (2006): “Black ants and Buddhists: Thinking Critically and Teaching Differently in the Primary Grades”: Stenhouse Publishers, ISBN: 1-57110-418-6

(In Chapter 8, Mary Cowhey describes that the reality is that much of what passes for history in elementary classrooms would be more accurately categorized as historical myths. These are oversimplified, sanitized, domesticated little stories, out of context. This is highlighted by my father’s account born in 1955, and growing up in many places across America.)