1. Learning and Living
Pedagogies of the Home
Dolores Delgado Bernal
Prepared by Thanh Nguyen

2. Pedagogies of the Home
• Definition: the communication, practices, and learning
that occur in the home and community
• Objective:
• Serve as a cultural knowledge base
• Provide strategies of resistance
• Benefit:
• Better understanding of the strategies will allow us to develop
educational policy and practices that value and build on
household knowledge in order to enhance Chicana academic
success and college participation

3. Mestiza Consciousness of Chicana
How student to:
 Balance
 Negotiate from:
 Draw  Bilingualism
 Biculturalism
 Commitment to
communities
 Spiritualties

4. Mestiza Consciousness of Chicana
Bilingualism Biculturalism
• Positive impact on • Allow bilingualism student to
academically and socially see things in various way while
others cannot
• Professional opportunities • Preserve native cultural
Commitment Spiritualties
• Being educated • Catholicism
will benefit others • To connect commitment to
family and to community
in the community

5. Questions:
Question 1:
In your opinion, do you think pedagogies
of the home are helpful? Explain and give
an example of someone that you know.
Question 2:
Are you bilingual student?
What do you think about
being a bilingual student in
your point of view?