Embracing Guatemalan Cultural Heritage: Classroom Celebrations during Hispanic Heritage Month

Abstract

In the inaugural section WOW Visual Stories Mikayla recalls the excitement she felt as she was assigned her first classroom. Mikayla engaged students in a culturally enriching curriculum and the class become more adventurous during Hispanic Heritage month by selecting Guatemala as a focus Latin culture. A Guatemalan student became a resource for their inquiry study. This vignette sums up their classroom as a produced social space that is physical and representational. Mikayla’s reflection dismantles discourse on and about the classroom as a perceived space that started awkwardly but grew within their journey as a classroom.

Keywords

• global children's literature
• education
• hispanic heritage
• latin culture
• classroom culture