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UCLA Migrant Student Leadership Institute as a third space

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Description

The MSLI is presented as an illustrative example of a third space—an approach or zone of development that transforms 'conflict and difference into rich zones of collaboration and learning.' It reorganized educational practices so that college-bound students of color from migrant farmworker backgrounds could see themselves as learners and social change agents, drawing on rigorous texts, mini-lectures, discussions, writing and reading conferences, field trips, theater, and college preparation workshops, and connecting students' community histories to present-day realities.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Organizers must work outside pre-existing conventions of what a learning space and its tools are

Constraints

  • The third space emerges from the collision of official and unofficial scripts; redirecting students back to the official curriculum thwarts its transformative potential

Target Learners

  • college-bound students of color from migrant farmworker backgrounds

Learning Goals

  • critical inquiry, seeing oneself as a learner and social change agent, and revising constructions of self, community, and schooling

Claims

  • Nepantla World Traveling Multiple Selves [+M]

Examples

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Key Sources

  • Rebecca Covarrubias. (2024). On Being Accepted: Interrogating How University Cultural Scripts Shape Personal and Political Facets of Belonging. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-024-09970-2
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title UCLA Migrant Student Leadership Institute as a third space
description The MSLI is presented as an illustrative example of a third space—an approach or zone of development that transforms 'conflict and difference into rich zones of collaboration and learning.' It reorganized educational...
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