77.026 - Toward Just Forms of Language and Literacy Learning Re-Mediating Pedagogies of Reading and Writing

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium brings together critical scholars and researchers of learning invested in the development of just forms of language and literacy education. Though heterogeneous, our visions of educational justice share a commitment to enacting the conditions through which non-dominant children, young people and communities can lead thriving and self-determined lives, free of the assimilative demands of white supremacy, economic exploitation, patriarchy, heteronormativity and colonial domination. Understanding the ways these systems directly shape normative forms of literacy instruction, we draw on ethnographic and interactional methods to closely analyze alternative pedagogical forms, their complexities, and the locally defined and ecologically meaningful forms of learning that emerge therein.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 3: Language and Literacies

Chair

• Shirin Vossoughi, Northwestern University

Papers

• Decolonizing Literacies as the Interstices Between Writing the Word and Reading the World - Miguel Zavala, Chapman University

• Writing as the Practice of Freedom: How Feedback Supports the Development of Creative Scholarly Writers - Shirin Vossoughi, Northwestern University; Kalonji L. Nzinga, Northwestern University; Allena G. Berry, Northwestern University

• Approaching Literacy Learning From Black Texts - Leigh Patel, University of Pittsburgh

• Re-Mediating Teacher Learning for Expansive and Decolonizing Learning for Nondominant Youth - Danny C. Martinez, University of California - Davis; Javier Rojo, University of California - Davis

Discussant

• Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, University of Pennsylvania