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Making Explicit Connections between Experiential Learning and Justice: New Approaches to Teaching and Learning through an Imagination for Justice
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Justice Isn\u27t One-Size-Fits-All: Working toward Justice in Service-Learning Courses
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Recovery as a Gift of Blackness: Epistemic Justice in Community Engagement and Learning
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Justice-Oriented Learning: Reconfiguring Experiential Education with a California Farmworker Community
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Being the First
Get PDFSamuela is a young Ghanaian girl born in Italy who currently lives in the UK and studies Politics at Durham University. She is dedicated to giving back to her community, learning new languages, and crossing life\u27s boundaries. She is an overthinker and a big dreamer. In this piece, “Being The First,” she exposes a piece of her diary addressed to an imaginary friend named "K." She writes about what it\u27s like to be a first-generation scholar in the UK and the pressure that comes with “Being The First.” Her diary is presented in disconnected paragraphs to represent her mental and emotional state
Por Ella, Por Ellos, y Por Los Que Siguen
Get PDFAshley Garcia is a first-generation student at Cal State Los Angeles. She started off her college journey during a pandemic. The pandemic took a mental toll on people of all ages, but especially on students. The obstacles life has thrown at her have not been easy to overcome. But she continues to break boundaries and achieve her goals. In this narrative, Garcia reflects on her mother’s sacrifices and how her early childhood experiences have shaped her
People You Meet During the College Years
Get PDFLilian Salas is a first-gen student and child of diaspora. Overwhelmed and exhausted, Salas considers the people who have influenced her throughout her college journey in a series of vignettes. From friendships to unrequited love, queer awakening, and arch enemies, each person has in some way helped her to grow and learn to love the person she is becoming
Para Mi Abuelo
Get PDFAlejandra Vargas grew up in a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California that consisted mainly of immigrant families, which meant she was never alone in her journey as a first-generation student. She was made aware early on of the challenges first-gens might face in the U.S. and was given access to an abundance of support resources. Still, it isn\u27t easy to manage all the expectations placed upon first-gen students. Vargas recounts moments from her past to show there are many forms of success stories among the first-generation community, but also to examine the impossible standards first-gen students are expected to meet. Content Advisory: This narrative contains content that may be upsetting to readers, including references to depression, suicide, and sexual assault
Editorial Team
No full textThe Toro Historical Review Volume 13,Issue 1 Editorial and Production Team:
Daniella EnriquezJason KookenCaitlin McClisterChristian Palomares
Dr. Joshua J. Jeffers, faculty mento
