OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Campa, B. (2013). Cultivating critical resilience among Hispanic community college students through a three-way learning community. Journal of Educational and Developmental Psychology, 3(2), 74-88.
This qualitative case study used a critical resilience framework to explore how a three-way learning community composed of a student success course and ESL reading and writing courses aided in the transition of a group of Mexican American ESL students to mainstream college courses. The findings illustrate that this transition involved helping the participants twist fibers of struggle into resilient yarn in order to improve their lives and those of their families. The author describes many of the students’ life experiences and the strategies supported by the three-way learning community that facilitated the students’ transition.
Campa, B. (2013). Pedagogies of Survival: Cultural resources to foster resilience among Mexican-American community college students. Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 37(4-6), 433-452.
This in-depth case study shows how five Mexican-American community college students use their pedagogies of survival to build resilience and navigate through the barriers of community colleges. Pedagogies of survival emanate from social, cultural, economic, and historical struggles of the students, their families, and their communities which engender orgullo (pride) and sabiduría (wisdom) and fosters their resilience. This resilience evolves from a long history of inequitable treatment and is maintained from birth to the present.
Campa, B. (2010). Critical resilience, schooling processes, and the academic success of Mexican Americans in a Community College. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 32(3),
429-455.
This qualitative study adds new dimensions to the traditional paradigm of resilience through the lives of five Mexican American community college students. The term critical resilience emerges as a result of using ideology from a feminist critical perspective. In-depth interviews, classroom observations, and focus groups were used to learn how this group of students overcame many obstacles and achieved success at Camino Real Community College (a pseudonym).
Campa, B. (2010). A feminist critical study of a master’s exam in teacher education. Equity & Excellence in Education, 43(2), 173-187.
This article discusses the findings of a qualitative case study that examined the experiences of teacher candidates in a Master’s final exit assessment pilot at a university in the southwestern region of the United States. Data was collected and analyzed throughout the study using a feminist critical lens.
Campa, B. (2008). Re-conceptualizing the educational resilience of Mexican American community college students. Dissertation. New Mexico State University.
This qualitative case study challenges the traditional paradigm of resilience through the lives of five Mexican American community college students. Shaped by a feminist critical lens, data collection included in-depth interviewing, classroom observations, and focus group discussions.