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Border Pedagogy and Orientación y Tutoría: A Case Study of USA–Mexico Collaborative Action Research

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This case study illustrates a project conducted in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, which is bordered with San Diego, California, the USA. A team of three bilingual graduate students in school counseling and their faculty advisor worked collaboratively with a teacher at a public secondary school in Tijuana and an official of the Baja State Department of Education. This collaborative project regarded strengthening guidance practice in delivery of a newly adopted guidance curriculum for schools throughout Mexico, the Orientación y Tutoría (Orientation and Tutorship [OT]) curriculum, utilizing a guidance approach designed by the US school counseling team. The project was part of a Bi-National Action Research Collaborative established in 2006. The chapter illuminates reflection on the experience of border pedagogy and collaborative action research in the borderlands.

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  1. University of San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA

    Shelley Barajas-Leyva

  2. School of Leadership and Education Sciences, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA

    Lonnie L. Rowell

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  1. School of Leadership & Education Sciences, University of San Diego, San Diego, California, USA

    Lonnie L. Rowell

  2. School of Education, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

    Catherine D. Bruce

  3. Education Department, Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA

    Joseph M. Shosh

  4. Center for Collaborative Action Research, Pepperdine University, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Margaret M. Riel

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Barajas-Leyva, S., Rowell, L.L. (2017). Border Pedagogy and Orientación y Tutoría: A Case Study of USA–Mexico Collaborative Action Research. In: Rowell, L., Bruce, C., Shosh, J., Riel, M. (eds) The Palgrave International Handbook of Action Research. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-40523-4_42

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