Crossroads: An Autoethnography on the Art Teaching and Learning as a Chicana

For my Master's in Art Education through the University of Florida in 2024, I wrote a series of autoethnographic stories.  I then analyzed these stories through a Latinx lens to answer these three questions:

1. What have I learned after 25 years of teaching?

2. What issues affected me the most?

3. How did I overcome the challenges I faced?

 

Please note that all names and locations in these stories have been changed, and that these stories present stories as literary works, with events, people, and descriptions slightly altered for literary effect.