Increasingly, faculty with intersectional perspectives are challenging many aspects of higher education and urging a radical reimagination of the institution itself. This volume explores the successful strategies and contradictions of working within, against, and beyond a university with the goal of creating a humanizing educational experience for students and faculty alike. Providing a glimpse of what is possible, chapter authors describe their efforts to build alternative core curricula, research apprenticeships, community partnerships, ways of interacting with one another, and models of leadership. They reimagine academic milestones and processes like hiring, tenure and promotion, faculty support, research, funding, publishing, collaboration, and more. Each essay details the institutional structures and supports that were effective at improving academic work in teaching and research contexts. Crafting Homeplace in the Academic Borderlands is a much-needed examination of what it means to create a homeplace in academia where humanization is practiced as the foundation for a new way to teach, learn, know, and be in relationships. Book Features: Demonstrates what scholar practitioners can accomplish when working together to collectivize their practice in the academy. Shares stories of scholar practitioners working across P-20 formal and informal educational and youth development spaces to humanize praxis in community work, research, teaching, activism, and leadership. Unearths contradictions and tensions that manifest among institutional demands, community needs, and the crisis around us. Provides a case study of transforming one institution of higher education to support faculty with diverse cultures and identities.
David Philoxene is an assistant professor of teacher education and faculty affiliate in the Center for Humanizing Education and Research. Danfeng Soto-Vigil Koon is co-director of the Transformative School Leadership Program and associate professor of leadership studies. Emma Haydee Fuentes is department chair and professor of international and multicultural education. All are at the University of San Francisco's School of Education.
Contents Foreword Margo Okazawa-Rey ?vii Introduction: Theoretical Roots and Placemaking ?1 Danfeng Soto-Vigil Koon, David Philoxene, and Emma Haydee Fuentes Part I: Crafting Homeplace 1. ?Homeplace Storytelling: Theorizing for and From Home ?19 Melissa Canlas and Emma Haydee Fuentes 2. ?Epistemic Collaging and Homemade Methodologies for Educational Research ?35 David Donahue, Johanna Estrella, Jean Pierre Ndagijimana, Eghosa Obaizamomwan-Hamilton, and Patricia Rojas-Zambrano Part II: Building Institutions Anew 3. ?Project HEAL: Humanizing Educators and Learners ?59 Ruchi Agarwal-Rangnath and Farima Pour-Khorshid 4. ?Challenging Academic Feudalism Through Humanizing Graduate Research Apprenticeship ?79 Danfeng Soto-Vigil Koon, Bianca N. Haro, Seenae Chong, and Cecelia Jordan Part III: SEEDING Home 5. ?"To Transform and Be Transformed": Testimonios of Humanizing Praxis and a Community-Engaged Care ?101 Belinda Arriaga-Hernandez, Rosa M. Jimenez, and Jane Bleasdale with Patricia Ramirez and Zenon Barron 6. ?!DALE! Organizing for Educational Justice and Liberation ?123 Daniela G. Dominguez Part IV: Fighting for and Tending Homeplace 7. ?Collectivizing Toward Transformation: A Genealogy of Place ?137 Patrick Camangian and Susan Katz 8. ?Beyond Survivance: Building a Collective Grounded in Humanizing Relationality ?153 Monisha Bajaj and Genevieve Negron-Gonzales 9. ?Reflections on Leadership as an Act of Love: Letters From the Dean ?169 Shabnam Koirala-Azad Conclusion: The Journey of Crafting Homeplace ?183 David Philoxene, Danfeng Soto-Vigil Koon, and Emma Haydee Fuentes Endnotes ?193 References ?195 Index ?211 About the Editors and Contributors ?219
