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Chismosos-R-Us

Contributed by

Stef Baldivia

Grounded in culturally responsive pedagogy, this lesson re-imagines "citation chasing" through the familiar lens of storytelling. Leveraging the narrative tradition of informal communication networks (chisme) common in Latino communities, students learn to trace how scholarly ideas originate, evolve, and spread across literature. By drawing an analogy between tracking a story’s chain of transmission and following a citation trail, undergraduate students learn to navigate academic literature as an active, evolving conversation. This is an adaptation of Nessa Vahedian Khezerlou’s “That’s What She Said” lesson plan.

Resource Statistics

Resource Type(s)
Instruction Program Material
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed
Authority is Constructed and Contextual
Scholarship as Conversation
Searching as Strategic Exploration
Discipline(s)
Ethnic Studies
Not Discipline Specific
Sociology
Type of Institution
College
University
Scope
Classroom-level
Course-level
License Assigned
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License CC-BY-NC-SA
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Member for

7 months 2 weeks
Topics
active learning
citation
collaboration
diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA)
search strategies
Other Attribution Information
Adapted from "That's What She Said" by Nessa Vahedian Khezerlou