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    The Aztec Concept of Malinalli and LGBT Pedagogical Lives
    Radical Pedagogy 13 (2): 119-129. 2016.
    The foundational concepts of traditional Aztec metaphysics can benefit relations between LGBT students and teachers and their heterosexual peers. Because LGBT students and teachers suffer academic grievances at rates which their straight colleagues do not, they are in need of sound mechanisms for redress. The ethical stances implicit in the Aztec ontological simple teotl and the three motion-changes through which it acts – olin, malinalli, and nepantla – offer novel ways of approaching positive …Read more
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    A particular 21st century understanding of the Aztec concept nepantla, one which has recently taken hold in critical education thanks to the writings of Gloria Anzaldúa, does not accurately reflect traditional Aztec history and philosophy. This essay reveals why this is the case, demonstrating in detail the meaning of nepantla within the broader Aztec ontology. It then asks education researchers and practitioners to instead use the theoretical framework of malinalli, the Aztec philosophical conc…Read more