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CHICAN@ ARTISTS AND ZAPATISTAS WALK
TOGETHER ASKING, LISTENING, LEARNING:
THE ROLE OF TRANSNATIONAL INFORMAL LEARNING NETWORKS IN
THE CREATION OF A BETTER WORLD
by
Roberto González Flores
______________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree of
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(EDUCATION)
August 2008
Copyright 2008 Roberto González Flores
Object Description
| Title | Chican@ artists and Zapatistas walk together asking, listening, learning: the role of transnational informal learning networks in the creation of a better world |
| Author | Flores, Roberto González |
| Author email | robertof2@socal.rr.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Education (Counseling Psychology) |
| School | Rossier School of Education |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-05-01 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2008-07-29 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Stromquist, Nelly P. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Sanchez, George J. Baca, Reynaldo R. |
| Abstract | In an era of globalized capital, informal learning is particularly important to emancipatory struggles. This qualitative study examines the informal learning relationship between the Zapatistas and 9 Chican@ artists from Los Angeles, California. The Chican@ artists are inspired to learn with and from the insurgent Zapatistas' experiences and messages as they too attempt to liberate themselves from what they consider institutional oppression in the U.S. Much of the initial learning examined revolves around the Encuentro Chican@-Zapatista of August 1997.; The purpose of this study is to advance our understanding of the role of transnational emancipatory informal network learning in an era of globalization. To explore the informal learning process it was important to ask the guiding questions: Why, how, and what did the Chican@ artists learn from their contact and interaction with the Zapatista rebels of Chiapas, Mexico and what impact did it have and is having on the Chican@ Movement?; The study shows that the 9 Chican@ artists were initially attracted to Zapatismo because of centrifugal negative experiences in the U.S. as they encounter institutional racism, social marginalization and exclusion from the social justice movements on the one hand, and positive centripetal identities and relationships that draw them towards Zapatismo, on the other. The Chican@ artists are critical of the traditional social justice organizations' strategic aims to either reform capitalism or to take state power. The study shows that the Chican@ artists related to the Zapatistas through a centripetal positive learning process that includes ethnic cultural, spiritual and political affinities. This research demonstrates that the informal learning relationship between Zapatistas and Chican@s is inter-subjective or horizontal because the learning style is between persons that value their differentness. While this study agrees with Peter Mayo's and Greg Foley's research on transformative learning, it is implicitly critical of Paulo Freire's approach given that the Freirean facilitator or change agent's role evokes a directive rather than a horizontal method. This research implies that the artists' echoing of the Zapatista message reinforced and enhanced the initial Zapatista call and has facilitated the initiation of a transformational paradigmatic shift within the Chican@ movement. |
| Keyword | Chican@s artists; Zapatistas; centrifugal; centripetal; informal learning; autonomy |
| Geographic subject (city or populated place) | Los Angeles; Chiapas |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1449 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Flores, Roberto González |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@dots.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Flores-20080729 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume17/etd-Flores-20080729.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@dots.usc.edu |
| Full text | CHICAN@ ARTISTS AND ZAPATISTAS WALK TOGETHER ASKING, LISTENING, LEARNING: THE ROLE OF TRANSNATIONAL INFORMAL LEARNING NETWORKS IN THE CREATION OF A BETTER WORLD by Roberto González Flores ______________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (EDUCATION) August 2008 Copyright 2008 Roberto González Flores |
