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Mexican American Student Services
Sean Arce
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1010 E. 10th St.
Tucson, AZ 85719
(520) 225-6229
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Mexican American Student Services

Social Justice Education Project

The Social Justice Education Project has fostered the development of the department's Critically Compassionate Intellectualism. For more information, see the Mexican American Student Services Model.

Through the unification of elements within this model, the department engages in the following pursuits:

  • Advocate for and provide culturally relevant curriculum for grades K-12.
  • Advocate for and provide curriculum that is centered within the pursuit of social justice.
  • Advocate for and provide curriculum that is centered within the Mexican American/Chicano cultural and historical experience.
  • Work towards the invoking of a critical consciousness within each and every student.
  • Provide and promote teacher education that is centered within Critical Pedagogy, Latino Critical Race Pedagogy, and Authentic Caring.
  • Promote and advocate for social and educational transformation.
  • Promote and advocate for the demonstration of respect, understanding, appreciation, inclusion, and love at every level of service.

The goals of the Social Justice Education Project are to provide students with the following:

  • A truly equitable education.
  • Academic rigor.
  • The opportunity to develop a critical consciousness.
  • The social and academic scaffolds necessary to dramatically increase the level of student success.
  • Assistance to enter the world independently.
  • Preparation to provide leadership to their world.

Out of this project, the Mexican American Student Services Model was developed, which integrates curriculum, pedagogy, and student-teacher interactions in an educational ecology that promotes student success.