Abriendo Puertas Cerrando Heridas (Opening doors closing wounds)

A volume in Work-Life BalanceSeries Editors: Joanne M. Marshall Iowa State University Jeffrey S. Brooks Iowa State UniversityBonnie C. Fusarelli North Carolina State University Catherine A. Lugg Rutgers UniversityLatish C. Reed University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and George Theoharis Syracuse UniversityAbriendo Puertas Cerrando Heridas (Opening Doors Closing Wounds): Latinas/os Finding Work-LifeBalance in Academia is the newest book in the series on balancing work and life in the academy fromInformation Age Publishing. This volume focuses on the experiences of Latina/o students professors andstaff/administrators in higher education and documents their testimonios of achieving a sense of balance between their personal and professional lives.In the face of many challenges they are scattered across the country are often working in isolation of each other and must find ways to develop theirown networks support structures and spaces where they can share their wisdom strategize and forge alliances to ensure collective success.The book focuses on Latinas/os in colleges of education since many of them carry the important mission to prepare new teachers and research newpedagogies that have the power of improving and transforming education. Following the format of the work-life balance book series this volumecontains autoethnographical testimonios in its methodological approach. This volume addresses three very important guiding questions (1) What arethe existing structures that isolate/discriminate against Latinas/os in higher education? (2) How can Latinas/os disrupt these to achieve work-lifebalance? And (3) Based on their experiences what are the transformative ideologies regarding Latinas/os seeking work-life balance?