Growing Teacher Activists: Pin@y Educational Partnerships' Community ACTion Praxis

Abstract:This paper analyzes case studies of Pin@y Educational Partnerships' (PEP) involvement in activism and organizing that fosters an intergenerational movement of radical teachers, scholars, leaders, and healers in creating Ethnic Studies curriculum and pedagogy while shaping policy and politics. PEP represents a community that draws inspiration and lineage from the 1968 Black Student Union/Third World Liberation Front (BSU/TWLF) at San Francisco State College (now known as San Francisco State University) in continuing the Ethnic Studies movement to serve our communities and transform our world. This paper introduces community ACTion praxis as a framework influenced by critical pedagogy, social movement theory, and the community action tenet of critical leadership praxis.