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This essay describes an intensive ten-day faculty institute held at Augsburg College’s Center for Global Education in Cuernavaca, Mexico, which proposed a model of holistic, liberatory education.
Crossing Borders: Multicultural Curriculum Transformation in Global Perspective incorporated field trips, simulations, lectures and discussions. Participants learned about the effects of neoliberal economic polices on the marginalized people of Mexico, and how these policies intersect with race, gender, class, and sexuality. An important theme throughout the Institute was the need for grassroots activism and solidarity with those who struggle for human and environmental rights in Mexico, the United States, and around the world. The article describes the work at the Institute and the changes made by the author in her cognitive psychology course to incorporate a holistic experiential approach which emphasized critical thinking and the idea of knowledge as positional.
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