Culturally Sustaining Teaching Artists in a Multigenerational Learning Community

This dataset includes interview data collected from teaching artists as part of a larger case study of the Culturally Sustaining Multigenerational Afterschool Arts (CSMAA, pseudonym) program. Background CSMAA was an afterschool program for TK-12 students and families at a Title I, university-affiliated community school in Los Angeles between 2015-2021. CSMAA was founded through a partnership between the school site and the university’s undergraduate arts education program, which hired CSMAA teaching artists while they were current undergraduate students or as recent alumnx of the arts education program. Methodology These semi-structured interviews were conducted to explore teaching artists’ retrospective reflections on their experiences in CSMAA. Specifically, interviews prompted reflections on their engagement with the social environment in CSMAA, beliefs about teaching and learning, and other academic, artistic, and professional experience since their time in CSMAA. All teaching artists and program coordinators were invited to participate in the interviews (coordinators served in hybrid administrative and teaching roles in CSMAA). Among them, six teaching artists and two coordinator-teaching artists agreed to participate (n=8). Semi-structured nterviews were conducted via Zoom in late 2021 and were transcribed from audio and video recordings with informed consent. Transcripts were de-identified and member-checked. The files provided here include de-identified interview transcripts and related documentation.