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“Circling Around the Fire with a Purpose: The People’s Garden on campus” returns to the collective group of students, parents, educators, and community members as cultural workers and creative intellectuals. This chapter details the ways in which an informal group committed to meeting after school to build on the collaborative vision para el vivir comunitario. They shaped practices that spoke back to Eurocentric, neoliberal public schooling practices. Community-wide themes of identity formation and agency are analyzed and connected to the meso- and micro-levels of participation among a group of students who started out by seeking: a) cultural awareness, b) connections to the community, and c) higher education. In the process, a community garden comes into being. Implications for educational researchers, high school students, educators, and university stakeholders follow.
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Sandoval, C.D.M. (2019). Cultivating Computing as Activism: Historicizing Cultural Identities as Academic Practices, 2010–2011. In: Ancestral Knowledge Meets Computer Science Education. Postcolonial Studies in Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47520-6_5
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