Louie F. Rodriguez recommends ‘Cultivating Una Persona Educada’ by Laura I. Rendón 

In this article, Laura I. Rendón argues that to imagine a new way in education, we need to create personas educados (educated people). She defines una persona educada as a “dignified, honorable person who is held in high regard.” She believes that such an educated person demonstrates habits of the mind and heart by understanding the importance of knowledge, critical thinking, and good decision making while also being reflective, intuitive, and perceptive. This person also has respect for diverse ways of knowing and is dedicated to equity and social justice.

To develop personas educadas, we need pedagogical spaces that are committed to a sentipensante (sensing/thinking) vision for education — one that honors intuition, introspection, and the inner life (sentir — to sense) and our intellectual development, including the “outer life of action and service” (pensar — to think). Rendón provides several concrete pedagogical recommendations that educators can consider for the sentipensante classroom.