Exploring the Interplay of Identity, Learning, and Literacy

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Literature increasingly shows the connection between learners’ identity and literacy practices. Literacy practices create a space for developing and enacting identities because the process of becoming literate and engaging in literacy practices involves taking up/developing new identities (Lynch, 2018). Identity is also constructed and re-created between individuals and their social worlds. Likewise, learning occurs through social interactions within peculiar contexts, or community of practices (Tett & Crowther, 2011). In the process of learning, people construct new identities (Tett & Crowther, 2011). However, people also bring a set of conceptions and beliefs to learning settings that shape the ways in which they elect to engage in literacy practices and learning. Therefore, exploring the interplay of identity, learning, and literacy is critical.

Sub Unit

• Division C - Learning and Instruction / Division C - Section 1a: Literacy

Chair

• Rebecca Yvonne Bayeck, Utah State University

Papers

• The Search for Darker Planets: Multiethnic Black Youth's Literacies as Fugitive Critical Race Praxis - Justin Avery Coles, UMass Amherst College of Education

• To Be Young, Gifted, and #000000: Mapping Digital Blackness in the Identities, Literacies, Protests, and Learnings of Young Black Peoples Today - Carmen Kynard,, Texas Christian University

• At the Intersection of Identity, Literacy, and Culture: Implication for Design - Rebecca Yvonne Bayeck, Utah State University

• Cultivating Justice-Oriented Learning Mutuality: Exploring Critical Literacy Practices and Identity Work With Black Students - Jackson Davena, Boston University

• Equipping Future Black Literacy Leaders to Cultivate Literacy, Identity, and Learning - Sakeena Everett, University of Georgia - Athens; Tamara Moten, University of Georgia